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rbadz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Sexual content, Grief, Dysphoria, and Classism
livviolet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Death of parent
Moderate: Eating disorder
annabananadel's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
“Hearts don’t have bones. They can’t actually break.”
What? Another Colleen Hoover book? Guess what. It’s to get me out of a book slump, okay? Tsk.
And it did it's job because I was out of it. It's the usual Colleen Hoover book that I came to get used to after reading almost all of her books (yes, I'm an OG fan - back in the early 2010s; I was even in her Wattpad era, sue me). To be honest, I'm writing this review after a week has passed and I can't even remember what the names are lol (let me google). Beyah and Samson. At this point, I'm amazed CoHo can still make up these names.
Heart Bones is somehow like her other books where it starts out with the heaviest backstory for it's main character. Beyah really is just one of those FMC that has that saddest backstory - how she was a one-night stand child, how her mother is an addict, how her father sort of abandoned her to her mother, and how the people in that town, especially Dakota, treated her. At some point, I was just done with her reminder of her social status. Yes, you are poor, Beyah. But you don't have to keep slamming that fact into the reader's conscious. You have an opportunity to not be poor if you could have just told your father of it - he is willing to help.
Then she had to live in her father's amazing house with his amazing wife and step-daughter. That's when she met Samson, who's this mysterious boy who's living next door. I can't get into much details as it would be a spoiler but I rated it as an okay book because I thoroughly enjoyed reading the first half of the book and maybe some of the next few chapters after that but the revelation and ending was sort of a disappointment. But maybe that's just me because I've met a lot of other people who loved this book and even cried when reading it.
Will this stop me from reading other CoHo books? Definitely not.
Graphic: Addiction, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Bullying and Sexual content
alannah12321's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Grief, and Death of parent
folded_between_pages_of_books's review against another edition
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Abandonment
bridgettetay02's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
andriaspyrou's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, and Death of parent
Moderate: Sexual content
streebela's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Chronic illness and Death of parent
krosebooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
lizziemarie01's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Eating disorder and Abandonment