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Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

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amanda_reads13's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring fast-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

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im_just_vidu's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.25

It's been 5 days since I've finished reading this book. So obviously I had enough time to digest this book and build my opinion about it. I can relate to this book so much in so many different levels. I think it's fair to give this a 4.25 stars.
This is one of the few books that made me feel seen. It kind of felt so private sometimes.
So this is a book about a girl named Beyah, who lost her mother to overdosing. (Not a spoiler, it happens in the first chapter) So she goes for her father's house to spend the summer. Beyah is someone who had really bad childhood. She doesn't get both her parent's attention so she had to feed herself and rely on herself. Beyah doesn't have much friends due to the same reasons. Beyah decides to not to tell her father about her mother's death. Her father is married to another woman and also with a daughter called Sara. Sara's boyfriend's friend is Samson. Sara wants to Beya setup with Samson. Beya announces that she don't want to be in a relationship with anyone, since she's gonna move after the summer break.
Beya is filled with sadness due to her traumas and all the things she had to go through since she was a child. She somehow talks with Samson for a moment. This is the story about they discovering how dark both of their lives are and wanting the best for each others.

In some point Samson asks Beyah if she's a cheerful person. She confesses that she's always been a sad person and was surviving and not living.

In the other end Samson doesn't talk about his family at all. He promises Beyah that he'll tell everything the day before they leave.
The reason I liked this book is maybe I also felt 'seen' from this book somehow. I really admire the loyalty no matter what type of obstacle they face. I felt comfort in Samson's character. That he's smiling for others but not smiling in eyes and not being able to happy because of that. I understood how they felt that their only friend was sadness and only the sadness. Not being able to peel off each others mental barriers is nicely written in the book. And also Beyah being the one who understand Samson when everyone doesn't and also she being the only one to believe him was so sad and beautiful. You know how hard is something when you've been through the same thing before. I admire Beyah for not giving up and believing the sad truth until the end. She believed on the thing she felt is true because she knows the hard truth.
I don't like that others labelling this book as a "romance". You can't see any romance in here. This is really sad and depressing book about 2 people trying to get better on their own. It's about living in an unfair society yet not blaming on it. It's about seeing the beauty in someones' eyes than their face. It's about being able to help others even though you're in a really bad situation. This is about a battle. Battle with your own demons, your past traumas and with your future self. And as the best author she is, Colleen Hoover has done a really good job. So I'm happy that I read this book.

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mussheftigpissen's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring lighthearted 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

5/5
I dont know what to say. Read it! Read it over and over again! Just read it!
The end was so emotional, this whole book was an emotional rollercoaster. The best Colleen Hoover book so far! I want to read it for the first time again and i know for sure this will be my every-year-summer-read. Thank you Colleen for this book, for telling us the story about Beyah and Samson. Two people that are yet so different in the beginnig but share the same old soul in the ending. This book reflects my love to the ocean, its reflecting hope.
There are so many quotes that i want to remember but this one is my favorite: ,,What fills the holes in a soul?“ ,,Pieces of someone else‘s soul.“

And now i can proudly say: I love this book with my heart bones

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kendrakeuler's review

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emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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sydneyluxford's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

Just a little bit better than average.

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morbookish's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.0

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filipa_maia's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

5.0

Rating Colleen's books is becoming kind of repetitive. It doesn't matter what the book is about, I can never rate it less than 5 stars. So far, not disappointed.

I loved this book and it's characters. Beyah and Samson are incredibly resilient and able to take care of themselves, like they did their entire lifes until they met eachother. Then, for the first time in their lives they found someone who understood what that was like. When they found each other, they found a completely different world when everything did not look so dark afterall.

This is a story about strength, resilience, self care... but most important about love. Not that kind of love that is annoying and childish (despite their ages), but a dipper kind of love. The love that only to people who experience the same things can understand. Anyone else would think that Beyah and Samson are "broken" but, in fact, they are just the products of a terrible and lonely childhood.

I would read anything written by Colleen Hoover... even her shopping list.

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