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Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

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andriaspyrou's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

It wouldn’t be a Colleen Hoover book unless there wasn’t a huge plot twist. I honestly don’t know why I didn’t see it coming. Beyah and Samson were cute as a couple, but honestly not a great couple. Still a really cute summer read.

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kindred_spirit_96's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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rsoul's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

This book gave me hope that not every Hoover book is hot trash. Then I got to page 2.
Teenage prostitution. Arson. Dead bodies. Volleyball. WTF.
Anyone that has ANY emotional intelligence will not like this book. In fact; I find it almost impossible that so many people cried over this shit. It is about a "self-reliant" teen that meets a young man. He doesn't tell her his real name and lies about everything else. Just like her. She doesn't tell her dad SHE FOUND HER MOM DEAD FROM AN OVERDOSE. This robot of a girl can only feel after a shallow relationship. Not so independent as every choice is made with complete consideration for the love of her life...after a few weeks. It must be love because she doesn't find it WEIRD AT ALL that he's going to take care of a body they find on a beach.
Totally unbelievable and reaches beyond all grasp of teenagers.

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kr29's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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katierosecrane's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

I wasn't fully in love with the main characters. They seemed a little too juvenile for me. The book had some tragic moments in them that were surprising, but honestly not my favorite Colleen Hoover book. I don't think I really felt the full connection the book was trying to project.

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lizziemarie01's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I'm patiently waiting for my paperback of It Starts with Us, I was going to read Verity first but I saw that they were changing the cover on this book from the white one to that ugly cover so I quickly bought this one whilst I could get my hands on it.

This book follows nineteen-year-old Bekah Grim. Her one ambition in life is to get out of Kentucky. One night after she gets home from work she finds her mum dead from a drug overdose in her trailer park home, her landlord is asking for the rent that her mum missed out on or to get out of the trailer in four days. Bekah decides to ring her dad who she hasn’t seen since she was sixteen to ask if she can stay with him and within 24 hours she is in Texas, with her dads second family. She has two months before she goes for the future she has built and Beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbour has thrown a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect, and he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But there is one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Which means they are 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.

I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did. But it was just heartbreaking and mended my heart at the same time. I loved that the various characters and how they all have actual personalities, which sometimes can be missed within books. This book starts straight with the drama with the events of Beyah coming home from work and then finding her mum and having to move to another state and I just wanted to hug her. I wanted to hug both Beyah and Samson multiple times during the book especially towards the end, it was all happy and fluffy and then drama happened. I loved that Beyah took up for herself and Samson and that Samson wanted her to live life whilst he was away. They were breaking each other as well as healing but I loved it.

I did think some things were a bit predictable – Samsom financial situation and the big secret that Samson was keeping - I thought it would be worst and it wasn’t. It still has a big twist which I didn’t expect, I had an inkling that Rafe was important but I didn’t realize how important it was.

The way that CoHo writes about Beyah’s journey of grief is just sad and heart wrenching, but the connection with Samson and Beyah is so adorable and I enjoyed the fluffy side of CoHo that I haven’t seen before.

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olive_loves_reading's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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carloscapy's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

3.25

I liked the storyline, and I was not expecting that ending at all!

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nguy524's review against another edition

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emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

I would really give this book 3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book but I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite Colleen Hoover book. I thought that the story line was unique and provided a perspective that some people just don’t understand about poverty and the life people can be forced to live. I appreciate the development. It did find myself wishing for more about Beyahs life during college and the life after the end!

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