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This being my first Colleen Hoover book I am utterly and totally hooked!
So many people praise Hoover's work and let me tell you I was not at all disappointed!
Her writing just makes the characters feel so real that you just can't stop reading. The way she mixes real life situations in to the book and actually portrays it beautifully is quite remarkable, some books you can tell are lovey dovey contemporaries-which is what I thought this would be but what surprised- and they just aren't realistic. But Hoover's story captivated me, she made me feel so many emotions going through this wild ride of a book. She starts with this tragic backstory and romantic setting with these two young people and then twists their whole stories by the end where you aren't sure who did what and then she gives you one more puzzle piece and it ties things in and you just go 'I don't know what I thought was going to happen but this is it'. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys new-adult fiction/drama/contemporary.
P.S. I definitely recommend going into this book totally blind!
So many people praise Hoover's work and let me tell you I was not at all disappointed!
Her writing just makes the characters feel so real that you just can't stop reading. The way she mixes real life situations in to the book and actually portrays it beautifully is quite remarkable, some books you can tell are lovey dovey contemporaries-which is what I thought this would be but what surprised- and they just aren't realistic. But Hoover's story captivated me, she made me feel so many emotions going through this wild ride of a book. She starts with this tragic backstory and romantic setting with these two young people and then twists their whole stories by the end where you aren't sure who did what and then she gives you one more puzzle piece and it ties things in and you just go 'I don't know what I thought was going to happen but this is it'. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys new-adult fiction/drama/contemporary.
P.S. I definitely recommend going into this book totally blind!
***SPOILERS***
Part one of the story starts slow like any contemporary but for this one you're hooked by the first page. The way Colleen's writing captivates you makes you breathe this book, it makes you devour all the words she's written. Curiosity sets in fast and you start to wonder how does Owen know Auburn? Why is his art studio called confess? and Why does he make his paintings based on confessions? You start continuing on reading and you think it's going to be this great love story, uncomplicated contemporary, then she just twists it up and nobody's telling you what they think or what they feel. Somebody is always taking up for somebody and everybody is selfless and selfish. Then when we find out about Owen knowing Auburn I immediately thought back to his accident and that maybe they'd met at the hospital way back when and then I thought deeperninto it and at first my thoughts were that he was covering for his dad and that his dad was driving the car not him, I also thought that the pills were not his (he just did not seem like he was into drugs, he seemed like a normal person, a normal broken person.) So once their relationship progresses and we start to see Auburn's emotions come out and learn more about Adam's family and how she is still connected to them we're almost shocked when we find out about AJ, but at the same time you didn't know it was going to go any other way. You start to sympathize with Auburn because how could Lydia be so cruel and selfish? But then again we get it, we can relate, that's the thing I've heard about her books, you can relate to them even if you haven't experienced these things personally you always can relate to something.
In part two of the book, things start to progress at a fast pace we're confused with Owen and why he decided to take jail time instead of rehab and let it be on his record and potentially ruin things with Auburn. Then we start to sympathize more with the situation at hand and how Auburn is dealing with trying to keep her son and get custody of him. Mostly everything she does, she has to go through Trey and Trey is manipulative and overprotective and from the very beginning he gave you this feeling of aggressiveness. We start to see how that affects their lives and it gets worse and worse, you start to see that he's corrupt and all he wants is revenge, he just wants hurt Owen for no reason other than a simple punch when they were teenagers. Trey wants to have Auburn but he knows that he will never have her heart no matter how hard he tries. So this frustrates him even more and he gets more and more aggressive about it and when it came down to this I knew something was going to happen. You could just feel how scared she was but at the same time all she wants to do have her son, and so her mind is just always going back to excuses and she doesn't want to ruin things, she wants to just let him have his way and maybe then she'll get her son back. We then start to see that things aren't always fair and life's not always fair and the law is sometimes not always fair. With just the simplest and might I say illegal things Trey almost got his way. At the end we start to get a resolve but not quite she leaves it on a great note, not quite an epilogue but it kind of wraps up the book and explained Owen's mysterious-ness and the origin of his paintings.
I just loved this book so so much and I can understand why everyone was recommending Colleen Hoover's books!
I would recommend to any ones who loves Stephanie Perkins, contemporaries, drama, or new adult fiction!
Part one of the story starts slow like any contemporary but for this one you're hooked by the first page. The way Colleen's writing captivates you makes you breathe this book, it makes you devour all the words she's written. Curiosity sets in fast and you start to wonder how does Owen know Auburn? Why is his art studio called confess? and Why does he make his paintings based on confessions? You start continuing on reading and you think it's going to be this great love story, uncomplicated contemporary, then she just twists it up and nobody's telling you what they think or what they feel. Somebody is always taking up for somebody and everybody is selfless and selfish. Then when we find out about Owen knowing Auburn I immediately thought back to his accident and that maybe they'd met at the hospital way back when and then I thought deeperninto it and at first my thoughts were that he was covering for his dad and that his dad was driving the car not him, I also thought that the pills were not his (he just did not seem like he was into drugs, he seemed like a normal person, a normal broken person.) So once their relationship progresses and we start to see Auburn's emotions come out and learn more about Adam's family and how she is still connected to them we're almost shocked when we find out about AJ, but at the same time you didn't know it was going to go any other way. You start to sympathize with Auburn because how could Lydia be so cruel and selfish? But then again we get it, we can relate, that's the thing I've heard about her books, you can relate to them even if you haven't experienced these things personally you always can relate to something.
In part two of the book, things start to progress at a fast pace we're confused with Owen and why he decided to take jail time instead of rehab and let it be on his record and potentially ruin things with Auburn. Then we start to sympathize more with the situation at hand and how Auburn is dealing with trying to keep her son and get custody of him. Mostly everything she does, she has to go through Trey and Trey is manipulative and overprotective and from the very beginning he gave you this feeling of aggressiveness. We start to see how that affects their lives and it gets worse and worse, you start to see that he's corrupt and all he wants is revenge, he just wants hurt Owen for no reason other than a simple punch when they were teenagers. Trey wants to have Auburn but he knows that he will never have her heart no matter how hard he tries. So this frustrates him even more and he gets more and more aggressive about it and when it came down to this I knew something was going to happen. You could just feel how scared she was but at the same time all she wants to do have her son, and so her mind is just always going back to excuses and she doesn't want to ruin things, she wants to just let him have his way and maybe then she'll get her son back. We then start to see that things aren't always fair and life's not always fair and the law is sometimes not always fair. With just the simplest and might I say illegal things Trey almost got his way. At the end we start to get a resolve but not quite she leaves it on a great note, not quite an epilogue but it kind of wraps up the book and explained Owen's mysterious-ness and the origin of his paintings.
I just loved this book so so much and I can understand why everyone was recommending Colleen Hoover's books!
I would recommend to any ones who loves Stephanie Perkins, contemporaries, drama, or new adult fiction!
Makayla|@stories_are_forever_
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