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Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover

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eve_lyn's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.25

The only redeeming aspect of this book is that Kenna did care enough about Diem to not ruin her life. Everything else in the book was one red flag after another after another. First time reading Colleen Hoover and my last. 

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beca_reads's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is definitely the best Colleen Hoover Book I have read thus far, non of her other books have made me feel emotional in anyway, though this manged to move me to tears near the end. We follow Kenna who has been in prison for the last five years, for manslaughter of her boyfriend Scotty. While in Prison Kenna gave birth to her daughter Diem. Once she is out of prison she makes it her mission to be reunited with her daughter, but she knows this will not be easy as her rights as a parent have been terminated, and her daughter now lives with Scotty's parents. Kenna moves into the local area and sparks a relationship with bar manager Ledger, this relationship becomes more and more complex the more they learn about each other and the secret's they are both hiding. This book carefully interweaves letters that Kenna writes to Scotty, and reveals a look into her past relationship, and what truly happened that fatal night. The book is solely character driven, which I'm not usually a fan of, but it works perfectly at  making you fully understand the intentions of the character's and the depths of their personalities, which you don't typically get in a plot/character driven book, this makes the end of the book feel so intimate and made me cry which I don't usually do. 
On the other hand I do an issue with some of the language used within the book. This being how Colleen Hoover referred to the disabled toilet; where she used highly out of date language to refer to this. I feel that this was easily avoidable and unnecessary with basic research. Coming from someone who is disabled there is no harm in using the word disabled. 

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