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Non-Spoiler Review:
Before you read this book, I suggest reading the trigger warnings.
To start off my bookish blog I’ve decided to review a book that has been exploding through all the charts and social media apps. Not to mention that a script is currently being written for a movie!
This is not the first book I have read of Colleen Hoover, but this book is one that I cannot stop thinking about. Whenever I see a picture of this book or read a snippet of it I automatically have to urge to pick up the book again.
Now do not go any further if you have not read this book.
🚨Spoiler Review🚨
First, let me just say that even before I knew the details of the book I loved the title, but I originally thought it had something to do with a love interest. After reading the book, I loved it even more than I could imagine. At first, I thought that it would be Atlas saying it to Lily after possibly ending up together, but wowza now I think I may just cry anytime I see the title.
I read this book in one sitting because some twist or important scene kept popping up. There was no chance of me putting this book down. In books, I really enjoy persepctives from an earlier period of the main character’s life to the present one, and Colleen Hoover found a really interesting and inventive way to integrate this in her writing. With this set up I knew there was going to be some sort of love triangle down the line, but I could not even imagine the plot twists.
My heart still drops every time I read the quote: “Where did you get that magnet, Lily?”
PSA reading the Note from the Author is a MUST in this book. I usually don’t, but it makes this book even more powerful. I think it took Colleen Hoover a lot of guts to tackle this story head-on, and honestly, if I were her, I don’t know if I could have.
As the story evolved there were many quotes that I absolutely loved, and of course, highlighted, but “I want to be you when I grow up” definitely tugged at my heartstrings. It was used twice in the book, but I thought the most powerful use of it was actually in Notes from the Author writing it for her mom.
"Fifteen seconds. That's all it takes to completely change everything about a person. Fifteen."
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