Colleen Hoover Broke My Heart Bones!

Happy New Year everyone. I know I am a little behind my schedule but I am here in one piece. I must say 2023 completely surprised me and two months flew just like that. A lot of things happened in my life in this two months but I am not complaining at all. I took a break for myself and focus on the things I need to be taken care off. So, now that everything is out of the way, let’s get back into business. My reading challenge had taken a toll but I am catching up to it. This month, I’ve chosen a book that ripped my heart out. Literally. Not a true story but felt like one. Heart Bones is a heart-wrenching romantic novel written beautifully by the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Colleen Hoover.

“What fills the holes in a soul?”
“Pieces of someone else’s soul.”

*Colleen Hoover*

Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, Colleen Hoover’s novel follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds.

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.

When 95% people liked this book on Google, you should know that this is a book not worth missing. And with only over 300 pages, you will get through it like a breeze. It felt like a movie with the characters coming out to life. If this is your first Colleen Hoover book just like me, be prepared to fall in love and also get your heart broken.

Now, let’s look at the interesting things I’ve came across while I mend the pieces of my heart bones.

1. Family.

“I may not be ending the summer with Samson by my side, but I’m ending it with something I didn’t have when I showed up here. A family.“

With a mother who was an addict who eventually died of overdosed, Beyah started questioning herself if it was the problem with her nature or nurture. Her dad left her when she was a few months old, visiting her once a year until she was four. Then, he started flying her to Washington to visit him, instead. Except for the last three years. Beyah had to call her father after her mother’s demise and everything starts to unravel from there.

2. Poverty vs rich.

“What’s it like being rich?” I ask him.
“Probably not much different than being poor. You just have more money.“

Samson and Beyah are so incredibly different from each other. Beyah is literally one of the many who slip through all the cracks. The ones who learn to do whatever it takes to survive. The kind who grow up not giving a second thought to eating a slice of bread they pulled out of a discarded loaf. Samson, on the other hand, have five houses and could do whatever he wishes to.

3. Independent.

“Around the age of six, I started to pay attention to how she worked the stove on those mornings, because I knew I’d need to know how to work it for the next time she disappeared.“

It is pathetic that Beyah had to start teaching herself how to work a stove at a young age because her mother wasn’t being around that much. As crazy as it is, she started to learn living without her mother even when she was alive. Things escalated when she had to go live with her father. She was not used to have a parent, more or so when her father has a brand new family of his own.

4. High-achiever.

“I want that victory. I want to be the reason I turn out the way I’m going to turn out.”

As poor as Beyah is, she had been working hard to get out of the life she was born into. She received a volleyball scholarship to Penn State and she was determined to make it work. She had never told her mother or even the father about the scholarship or how good she was in volleyball. Her coaches made sure she had everything as far as the supplies, equipment and a uniform. The summer before college changed her dreams and life goals.

5. Heart bones.

“The only answer I really want to know is whether or not he actually grew a heart bone. If he did, is his breaking right now? Because mine is.“

The summer fling was finally coming to an end. Beyah and Samson thought they will get over it but they started developing real feelings towards each other. The plot thickens when Beyah gets out of college four years later and waits for Samson in front of the jail. Without any meet ups and communication, will their heart bones be healed? You have to read to find that out on your own.

What are you current read? I hope it is as interesting as mine or even better. Keep reading and I’ll see you again with another awesome book.