"I close my eyes and press my face into my hands, trying to decide if my detachment is because of my upbringing or if I was born broken."
Beyah was brought up with an addict mother who eventually gets consumed by her addiction and leaves Beyah alone, with only one solution which she desperately did not want to arrive at but she does and reaches out to her long-distance-never around father. Beyah keeps secrets to herself as she doesn't want others to get credit for how she got out of that damaged world her mother raised her in. Eventually, she lands at a nice house and has unlimited food compared to where she used to live in Kentucky and slowly starts shedding off some pent-up anger. Beyah is so used to the loneliness that when the opposite starts to happen she doesn't feel like she fits nor act around others.
Colleen Hoover has no business in hurting my feelings and making me sob at 1AM when I have to be up early in the morning. I was so heartbroken it doesn't make sense how words can take someone's feelings and turn them upside down but this book really got to me. After 80% I was just teary-eyed because I felt everything tumbling down as the story started falling into pieces.
There are so many important topics that are highlighted in this love story and I find it so eye-opening because despite the many options I came up with on how someone's lives could've been better when they had nothing, it all goes back to falling through the cracks of the system. The fact that Beyah shows that she's dealing with grieving and the ongoing burden of having to become an adult at a young age. She was smart and found opportunities through her pain and situations. Beyah is layered with resentment and anger from all the hardships she faced and despite all of that she was still able to polish off and see really see through Samson's heart. I loved how the story felt so real because it was slow paced but also rushed by Beyha's school journey and I appreciate romance stories that are well-formed with both characters and take their time to slowly grow feelings for each other.
“If there’s nothing inside a heart that can break, why does it feel like mine is going to snap in half when it’s time for me to move next month? Does your heart not feel like that?” Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a moment. “Yeah,” he whispers. “It does. Maybe we both grew heart bones.”
Rating: 5
Format: Ebook
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Romance
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