Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover-Review & Excerpt Tour
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 19, 2020
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim’s parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.
With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows.
Beyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.
Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.
She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Which means they’re 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.
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REVIEW:HEART BONES by Colleen Hoover is a contemporary, new adult stand alone romance story line focusing on nineteen year old Beyah Grim, and twenty year old Samson.
Told from first person perspective (Beyah Grim) HEART BONES follows nineteen year old Beyah Grim in the days and weeks following the death of her mother. Evicted within hours of her mother’s death, Beyah turned to her father, a virtual stranger she hadn’t seen in years, but a man who is completely unaware of our heroine’s plight. Upon her arrival at her father’s summer home in Texas, Beyah would meet neighbor Shawn Samson, or Samson as he calls himself, the young man with whom our heroine would fall in love. What ensues it the slow building romance and relationship between Beyah and Samson, and the fall-out as Samson’s life is about to implode.
Beyah Grim knows poverty, neglect and desperation first hand having struggled through years of her mother’s addictions but hours after her mother’s death, Beyah is homeless, and with no source of hope. Spending the summer with her father, and his new family, Beyah will learn that ‘family’ is who and not necessarily about blood, and in the Beyah will be pulled into the aura that is a young man called Samson.
Samson has a secret, many secrets that are about to destroy his friendships and the relationship with the woman he loves. A life matched only by the heart break of the sea, Samson’s lies and pain will push Beyah out of his life.
The relationship between Beyah and Samson begins as part of a group of friends but quickly turns into a summer romance with an end date as our couple prepare for the next chapter in their lives but the summer will end when Samson’s secrets are finally revealed. The $ex scenes are passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are introduced to Beyah’s father Brian, his wife Alana, and Alana’s daughter Sara; Sara’s boyfriend Marcos, as well as Samson’s neighbor Marjorie and her son Kevin.
HEART BONES is an emotional and heart breaking story of secrets, lies, friendships and love. The premise is captivating; the romance is seductive; the characters are broken and raw.
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Reviewed by Sandy
“I didn’t think there were many people in the world like me,” he says.
“You think we’re alike?” I want to laugh at that comparison, but there’s not an ounce of humor in his expression.
“I believe we have a lot more in common than you think we do, Beyah.”
“You think you’re as alone in this world as I am?”
He folds his lips together and nods his head, and it’s the most honest thing I’ve ever seen. I never would have thought someone so well off could have a life as shitty as mine, but I can see it in the way he’s looking at me. Everything about him suddenly seems familiar to me.
He’s right. We are alike, but only in the saddest ways.
My voice comes out in a whisper when I say, “When I first met you on that ferry, I could tell you were damaged.”
There’s a flicker of something in his eyes as he tilts his head to the right. “You think I’m damaged?”
“Yes.”
He moves even closer in the water, but there wasn’t much space left between us to begin with. It’s deliberate, and so much of me is touching so much of him now. “You’re right,” he says quietly, slipping a hand around the back of my left knee. “There’s nothing left of me but a fucking pile of debris.” He pulls me to him, wrapping both my legs around him. That’s all he does, though. He doesn’t try to kiss me. He just connects us together as if that’s enough while our arms keep us both afloat.
I’m swiftly succumbing to him. I don’t know in what way. All of them, maybe. Because right now, I need him to do something else. Anything else. Taste me. Touch me. Drag me under.
We watch each other for a moment and it’s almost like looking into a broken mirror. He leans in slowly, but not toward my mouth. He presses his lips against my shoulder, so gentle it feels like a graze.
I close my eyes and inhale.
I’ve never felt anything so sensual. So perfect.
