He pulls back to look down at me and when he sees my tears, he brings his hands up to my cheeks. “In the future… if by some miracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again… fall in love with me.”
Ryle. What would you do? If one of these days, this little girl looked up at you and she said, ‘Daddy? My boyfriend hit me’ What would you say to her, Ryle?
“People say that teenagers don’t know how to love like an adult. Part of me believes that, but I’m not an adult and so I have nothing to compare it to. But I do believe it’s probably different. I’m sure there’s more substance in the love between two adults than there is between two teenagers. There’s probably more maturity, more respect, more responsibility. But no matter how different the substance of a love might be at different ages in a person’s life, I know that love still has to weigh the same. You feel that weight on your shoulders and in your stomach and on your heart no matter how old you are.”
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."
Welcome to my first post and the start of my new blog! I’m so excited to launch this website, so I hope you guys enjoy it. Even if it does just end up being my parents and siblings who read it lol.
I do want to shout out my sisters and mom who encouraged me to start my bookstagram in the summer of 2020, and who also will listen to me geek out about the books I read. Then also a huge shout out to my sister Katie who got me this website for a Christmas present! I’m absolutely loving it, and thank you for believing in me to start this! All of your guys’ support means to world to me and keeps me going!
Now let’s kick this thing off!
Tomorrow at 5:30 pm I’ll be dropping my first book review and quotes.
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