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Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

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rbadz's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • 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

Very readable and well paced. Some hard hitting topics,  but you get into the characters' world and want to find out what happens.

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sldibened's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
  • 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


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annabananadel's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • 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.


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gingerlaura's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced
  • 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


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folded_between_pages_of_books's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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bentobookdragon11's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.75


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proudtobeabookaholic's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced
  • 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

Beyah är 19 år när hennes mamma dör i en överdos och hon blir vräkt från deras boende. Hon tvingas bo hos sin pappa, som hon knappt känner, över sommaren. Hon planerar att hålla en låg profil tills hon ska åka till universitetet, där hon fått ett fullt stipendium. Men så träffar hon Samson och mot sin vilja dras Beyah mot honom. Han är väldigt hemlighetsfull och hon upptäcker snart att de har en del gemensamt. 

Det är första gången jag läser Hoover på svenska och den känns mer YA än de andra böckerna jag läst av henne. Vet inte om det beror på att huvudpersonerna är yngre eller på översättningen. Det är inte lika heta s*xscener här heller, så den skulle definitivt kunna klassas som YA, eller åtminstone NA. 

Det tar ett tag innan jag riktigt kommer in i boken, innan jag börjar förstå Beyah. Det blir en slags kulturkrock för henne när hon flyttar in hos sin pappa. Hon har varit van vid att leva med en missbrukande förälder som inte bryr sig om något annat än sin nästa fix och hon har inte alltid haft mat att äta. Nu har hon plötsligt en hel familj (pappan är gift och har en dotter till) som uppriktigt bryr sig om henne och hon har lite svårt att acceptera det. De har det dessutom bra ställt och det finns alltid mat på bordet. Då är det kanske inte så konstigt att hon håller sig på sin kant och inte berättar sanningen om sin uppväxt. 

Både Beyah och Samson är vad jag skulle kalla trasiga själar. Långsamt närmar de sig varandra, men samtidigt vet de att när sommaren är över kommer de att gå skilda vägar. Mitt hjärta är nära att brista flera gånger när Hoover skickligt spelar på hela känsloregistret. Det här är en bok om att överleva, om att tvingas bli vuxen alldeles för tidigt och om hur mycket man kan tänkas förlåta. Det är både brutalt och vackert, hjärtskärande och rörande. Om det inte vore för att det tog mig ett tag att hitta "tonen" i boken så hade det här blivit en fullpoängare!

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annem4i's review against another edition

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reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I thought this book would be a realistic description of poverty. Instead it describes a girl who judges everyone around her, and ultimately chooses a toxic, criminal guy who lied to her on multiple occasions to get her into bed, rather than her family who has been nothing but supportive of her. Once again Hoover romanticises toxic relationships. Good job.

The only positive thing is that it’s an extremely fast and easy read, especially for non-native speakers.

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nachobasic_itch's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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bridgettetay02's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • 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


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