Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

63 reviews

alannah12321's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Body shaming, Grief, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Drug abuse

kristen3212's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious sad fast-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Death of parent

Moderate: Grief and Classism

Minor: Toxic relationship

bridgettetay02's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Death of parent, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Grief, and Sexual content

samburkhouse's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Grief, Addiction, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Eating disorder, Classism, and Sexual assault

ksmith_23's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Classism, Cursing, Child abuse, Grief, and Drug abuse

Minor: Bullying and Sexual content

streebela's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Mental illness, Grief, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Chronic illness

katierosecrane's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Abandonment, Blood, Drug use, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty

lizziemarie01's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Addiction, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual harassment, Death, and Grief

Minor: Eating disorder and Abandonment

bookishchaos's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I loved this!! The story and the characters were well written, you definitely weren't expecting the "plot twist". Yeah some parts were a little unrealistic but that's why I like Colleen's books, they're entertaining lol! This is a great summer read that takes place almost entirely on the beach and there's also no cliffhanger.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Sexual assault

Moderate: Addiction, Dysphoria, and Grief

Minor: Cursing and Violence

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Grief, Drug use, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder