Book Review: This Girl by Colleen Hoover

 

 

Synopsis:

There are two sides to every love story. Now hear Will’s.

 

Colleen Hoover’s New York Times bestselling Slammed series has brought countless readers to their knees with a whirlwind of love, passion, and heartache. Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from his point of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.

Okay, so normally if I didn't like a book, I just wouldn't review it.  I hate saying anything super critical about another authors work.  So, I usually only pass along books that I have something good to say about them.

This Girl, by Colleen Hoover gets 2 stars from me.  Mostly I give it two stars because the writing is good.  I've read a lot of books that I can't even finish because the writing itself is so poor.  But this author has a great writing style, and I like these characters.  I have liked them from the very first book.

Which is why it is painful to tell you that I thought this book was terrible.  I usually race through Hoover's novels because I can't wait to see what happens.  I raced through this one because I just wanted it to be over.

There is only so many times I can listen to a couple tell each other how much they love each other and how wonderful they think the other person is before it becomes sticky sweet.

And this book had absolutely zero plot.  There was no goal, no conflict.  Yes we like these characters, but a book written in happily ever after land is just boring!

In my opinion, and it pains me to say it, but this wasn't a book.  It was a 300+ page epilogue. 

But on the bright side, it's Friday!!:)  I hope you all have a great book to read over the weekend!

This Girl by Colleen Hoover releases April 30th

The new and improved covers for the Slammed series are out!

Colleen Hoover's latest book in the slammed series will be available starting April 30th.  And I will be waiting with my finger hovering over the buy-now button!

If you haven't read Slammed or Point of Retreat, and you are a Colleen Hoover fan, I suggest you go get them right now!

If you want to pre-order a copy, here is a link to www.bn.com for This Girl.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/this-girl-colleen-hoover/1114818827?ean=9781476746531

Synopsis:

There are two sides to every love story. Now hear Will’s.

Colleen Hoover’s New York Times bestselling Slammed series has brought countless readers to their knees with a whirlwind of love, passion, and heartache. Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from his point of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.

Book Review - Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

 

Author: Colleen Hoover

Publisher: Colleen Hoover 12/18/2012



BN ID: 2940016106731

Goodread's Synopsis:
Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…

That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

I really liked Colleen's first two books Slammed and Point of Retreat.  So I was very excited when this book came out. 
This author does an amazing job of making the reader feel what the characters are feeling.  I found myself hanging on every single word she wrote.
And, she uses feelings and phrases that make me think 'Yes! That's exactly how that feels.'  In one of the first physical scenes in this book, she describes how Sky, the female main character, feels when she is touched by Holder, the male main character.  It was such clever and precise wording, I had to read that sentence more than once.
This authors makes you want to be in the story with her characters.  You want to know them. 
And, her plot twists and turns were compelling.  She knows how to hook a reader to keep reading.

That being said, I am not into teenage sex scenes at all.  This book is for over 17 readers.  But it was definitely targeted to the YA crowd. 

I thought a lot of the sexual content was unnecessary and it actually slowed the story down instead of boosting the emotional connection with the reader.  And every time I read, he kissed her on the head, I wanted to roll my eyes.

All in all, I really liked this book.  The author grabs your emotions and takes you for a ride.