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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I hated this book.
Until I didn't.
Colleen Hoover is an auto-buy author for me. I know whenever I pick up one of her books I am in for a treat! So when I started reading Layla.... I was surprised how much I wasn't enjoying it fully. I felt protective of Layla, and felt really uncomfortable with the relationship forming between Leeds and Willow. Now I still enjoyed it up to this point, I liked her writing and how immersed in the story I was, but there was just a heaviness in my heart as I read. I was truly upset for Layla, and unhappy with the way things were moving, I felt betrayed on behalf of Layla and felt the weight of the morality that Leeds should have felt.
Then.... everything changed. With one simple realization that Randall shared with us, and everything corrected itself. Everything made sense. Everything felt right, and that heaviness evaporated. Every word from chapter 22 onward I devoured, connecting the pieces along with our characters and all 81% of the book that came before, felt right. Every sentence prior now made me smile and nod with approval.
I went through a lot of emotions in this book and I am happy with every single one of them. LOVED THIS!
Until I didn't.
Colleen Hoover is an auto-buy author for me. I know whenever I pick up one of her books I am in for a treat! So when I started reading Layla.... I was surprised how much I wasn't enjoying it fully. I felt protective of Layla, and felt really uncomfortable with the relationship forming between Leeds and Willow. Now I still enjoyed it up to this point, I liked her writing and how immersed in the story I was, but there was just a heaviness in my heart as I read. I was truly upset for Layla, and unhappy with the way things were moving, I felt betrayed on behalf of Layla and felt the weight of the morality that Leeds should have felt.
Then.... everything changed. With one simple realization that Randall shared with us, and everything corrected itself. Everything made sense. Everything felt right, and that heaviness evaporated. Every word from chapter 22 onward I devoured, connecting the pieces along with our characters and all 81% of the book that came before, felt right. Every sentence prior now made me smile and nod with approval.
I went through a lot of emotions in this book and I am happy with every single one of them. LOVED THIS!
Après avoir lu Verity, j’ai eu vraiment le goût de plonger dans la lecture de Layla. Une autre histoire de Colleen Hoover qui sort du cadre de ce qu’elle écrit habituellement. Contrairement à Verity, ce n’est pas un thriller. Amour et surnaturel, voilà ce que vous réserve ce livre.
Sans être un page-turner, l’histoire est mystérieuse et originale. Ça se lit super bien. Par contre, il ne faut pas s’attendre à avoir des frissons en lisant ce livre! Disons que mon cœur battait pas mal plus rapidement en lisant Verity que Layla.
J’aurais aimé que le personnage de Leeds soit plus proactif. J’avais tellement de questions pour Willow. C’est certains qu’il faut mettre son cerveau à off pour lire ce livre. Ça se tient plus ou moins, et je ne parle pas du fantôme en tant que tel! Les personnages ne réagissent tout simplement pas comme ils le devraient. Néanmoins, l'histoire m'a quand même accroché du début à la fin.
Sans être un page-turner, l’histoire est mystérieuse et originale. Ça se lit super bien. Par contre, il ne faut pas s’attendre à avoir des frissons en lisant ce livre! Disons que mon cœur battait pas mal plus rapidement en lisant Verity que Layla.
J’aurais aimé que le personnage de Leeds soit plus proactif. J’avais tellement de questions pour Willow. C’est certains qu’il faut mettre son cerveau à off pour lire ce livre. Ça se tient plus ou moins, et je ne parle pas du fantôme en tant que tel! Les personnages ne réagissent tout simplement pas comme ils le devraient. Néanmoins, l'histoire m'a quand même accroché du début à la fin.
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
This was another book I was given mix reviews on, but honestly it had me thinking the whole book. I really enjoyed it.
dark
emotional
sad
fast-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
I went into this one completely blind, like I did with Verity by Colleen Hoover. I loved verity so I thought the same methodology would be perfectly fine for this one. Wrong. I wish I had read the synopsis more because I was not ready for this.
This begins with Leeds and Layla and they fall for each other pretty quickly. Layla is very much a manic pixie dream girl in my personal opinion but I think it worked well. But, they go though an accident leaving Layla with a brain injury and to rekindle their romance or whatever they return to where they fell in love. But this place is haunted and there is just some spooky stuff going on.
Leeds meets Willow a ghost, that he falls for, treating Layla pretty lousily in my opinion, it wasn't fun to read about given she had just suffered a brain injury. But it all comes to light at the end and you realise ok he wasn't actually that horrible, everything is not as it seems... But it still just didn't sit right with me. It was weird and unsettling but not in a good way for me.
This begins with Leeds and Layla and they fall for each other pretty quickly. Layla is very much a manic pixie dream girl in my personal opinion but I think it worked well. But, they go though an accident leaving Layla with a brain injury and to rekindle their romance or whatever they return to where they fell in love. But this place is haunted and there is just some spooky stuff going on.
Leeds meets Willow a ghost, that he falls for, treating Layla pretty lousily in my opinion, it wasn't fun to read about given she had just suffered a brain injury. But it all comes to light at the end and you realise ok he wasn't actually that horrible, everything is not as it seems... But it still just didn't sit right with me. It was weird and unsettling but not in a good way for me.