Publication Date: August 19, 2020
Publisher: Hoover Ink, Inc.
Rating: ★★★★★
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim’s parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.
With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.
Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.
She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Which means they’re drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current is coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea.
Review:
Every time Colleen Hoover puts out a new book, an angel gets its wings. Each and every book she has written has its own different story which makes me love her that much more.
Ever since I read my first Colleen Hoover novel, she has become one of my favorite auto-buy authors. She’s just so great with her words that I’d be confident in saying she’s my favorite author. She can write about adults, she can write about teenagers…she could write about anything and I’d still read it.
“Damaged people recognize other damaged people. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”
This story was insane from start to finish. Beyah up and leaves her life in Kentucky and moves to a beach town in Texas with her father. She is headed out to start her life in a few short months, but until then, she just needs somewhere to stay. In the synopsis, the “unexpected death” that is referred to was absolutely shocking and heartbreaking. I felt like I was going through a loss myself. I felt for Beyah because this is such a traumatic thing, but it’s so sad how real of a life experience it was.
Samson’s character was moody and secretive. I really enjoyed the quietness of it all. You think one thing and it’s so far from the reality of their lives. It truly is a testament of “don’t judge a book by its cover”.
Starting this book, I had no idea what to expect. From the first chapter, I was shook to my core. Colleen’s description of an “unexpected death” was putting it lightly. I will say that, unfortunately, too many people have seen this exact moment, and I was very moved by the way it was described. The moment wasn’t too graphic, but absolutely got the message across.
Beyah is one of my favorite characters in a book ever. She is 19 years old and is forced to grow up. We all go through difficult traumas in our lives and I connected with her through my own moments that I’ve experienced. Nineteen is still so young and I hate that things like what happened to her actually truly happens in people’s everyday lives. Beyah made this entire book just with herself. I could just learn about her and nothing else and this would’ve still gotten a five-star rating from me.
The mystery of this book was another plus for me. The way people meet, the way they are the way that they are, it’s all covertly explained. It’s shown in a way that you won’t get until you’re finished the book and you think back on it.
Samson was a whole other entity himself. Every time he would open up, I simply could not figure him out. I had no idea what was going on with him and still had no idea even towards the end. The ending surrounding him…phew I was in my FEELINGS!!
Overall, this book was phenomenal at the very least. The angst, the secrets, the romance, the ending… Colleen Hoover really hit it out of the park with Heart Bones.
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