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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
summerlouisereads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
The tears in my eyes and my jaws clenching was not expected. I didn’t even relate to the characters that much but there’s so much to takeaway from this book or to find emotional no matter what. Seeing them heal each other and not give up on each other is so emotional for me.
It’s a really good book. The beginning wasn’t as emotional and how long it took them to get into a romance was a bit tedious but not uninteresting. There was conflict everywhere you turn because there’s two plots, their confusing romance but also the mothers death and absent father plot so no matter what, you are always wondering what will happen next and captivated by some sort of conflict, drama.
Graphic: Addiction
jesmardru'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
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
samarama9's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Grief, and Death of parent
sldibened's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment
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
ksanderss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Death of parent
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
kristen3212'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
Graphic: Addiction and Death of parent
Moderate: Grief and Classism
Minor: Toxic relationship
gingerlaura's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Addiction and Death of parent
Moderate: Drug use and Sexual content