January Reviews - Slammed by Colleen Hoover

Falling in love can feel like poetry. Or it can feel like a slam to the heart.


Colleen Hoover’s romantic, emotion-packed debut novel unforgettably captures all the magic and confusion of first love, as two young people forge an unlikely bond before discovering that fate has other plans for them.










Synopsis:
Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken becomes the rock for both her mother and younger brother. She appears resilient and tenacious, but inside, she's losing hope. Then she meets her new neighbor Will, a handsome twenty-one-year-old whose mere presence leaves her flustered and whose passion for poetry slams thrills her.


Not long after a heart-stopping first date during which each recognizes something profound and familiar in the other, they are slammed to the core when a shocking discovery brings their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together and the forces that tear them apart. Only through the poetry they share are they able to speak the truth that is in their hearts and imagine a future where love is cause for celebration, not regret.

Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. She released her debut novel, SLAMMED, in January 2012 and the follow-up novel, POINT OF RETREAT, in February, 2012. Both books have been optioned for film as of October, 2012.

If you want entertaining, stay away from her Twitter and visit her blog, instead. www.colleenhoover.com


Reviewer - Tiffany N.

Title/Author – Slammed by Colleen Hoover

5 Stars

The story was about how you face obstacles in your life. How you lose people that mean a lot to you, but still have to be strong for other people. How you fall in love with someone and then find things out about them. Sometimes it may ruin your relationship. Slammed was based on two people that fell in love before they knew anything about each other. For example, love at first sight. After they found things out about each other, they had to call it quits. At a certain point in the book, she thought her mom was seeing someone, it turns out that it was just a friend that was helping her with her chemo treatments. Lake begins to take care of her mother while she had lung cancer. When her mother dies Lake is left to take care of her little brother, finish school, and go on to college.

I really enjoyed this book. My grandma died of lung cancer last October, so this book really touched me. I was the same way. I was too worried about everything else to even notice she was getting sick. It’s hard to lose someone that is really close to you. You face obstacles alone by having to be strong for everyone else around you. So, that’s why I really love this book. Plus, it is kind of romantic. 

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