Book Review: This Girl (Slammed #3) by Colleen Hoover

This Girl by Colleen Hoover

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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“You want to know my sweet?”

“You. Always you.”

-Will Cooper-

TEN THOUSANDS STARS FOR SLAMMED SERIES AND TEN THOUSANDS MORE FOR MY FAVORITE AUTHOR COLLEEN HOOVER!

This Girl is the third and the last book on Slammed series. So sad that my encounter with Layken and Will had to stop here but I’m truly happy for them both. My lovely couple!

In this last installment, we got to see everything happened on book 1, Slammed, from our hero’s point of view, Will Cooper. Yay! 

Well, I read a lot of books that was a reverse POV of its predecessor. But what made This Girl stand out is how Colleen delivered the reverse POV here. She’s not just writing the book all over again from Will’s POV so the reader would be a crying mess again, but she actually put every part in between the happy scenes so at least I was just crying a bathtub instead of crying a river… how did she do it? Read the book, alright! ;)

And we got an epilogue here for Layken and Will! Ah… it’s really beautiful ending… and the last poem in the end titled ‘My Final Piece’… LOVED IT! 

Really thank you Colleen Hoover for writing this beautiful series.

I really had an amazing reading list this month! :)

Love, read, and review,

Cynthia D.

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Book Review: Point of Retreat (Slammed #2) by Colleen Hoover

Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together”

THOUSANDS BUTTERFLYING BEMAZING STARS FOR THIS BOOK!!

God, oh God, my emotion for Layken and Will here is ALL OVER the place. I finished this book in one sitting past midnight and seriously cried non-stop from chapter sixth to the last page. I was so so happy that there are two more books for this couple but I just don’t expect there will be conflict between them (duh, of course, there will be, if there’s no conflict sure there’s no story to tell…). But then the long suffering really worth it, the ending was epic! 

Now that Layken and Will finally found their way to be together, this couple was faced with another bitter reality on their life. Last few years had been a long storm going. Layken with Kel ended up having the same life as those they’ve been seeing of Will’s and Caulder’s. And now four of them were sailing on the same boat, they’re more than ready to fight the possible storm and rough waves coming on their way in the future. But when the little rock from the past hit their boat, Layken and Will never thought that it would affect their future plan… and moreover, left Layken to second-guessing everything between them. In the end, they were reminded that in a relationship it was not always just fighting the storm together, but it was also about holding each other hand while fighting the storm together.

Well, this might be the shortest synopsis I ever wrote. I tried my best not to spoil much because in case someone who hasn’t read Slammed come across this review, then they won’t find out much about what happened in Slammed.

So, I finished this book in one sitting as well (just like Slammed!) and I am really proud about this fact because I think I’m getting better in increasing my reading speed because of this series. In this book, Colleen tested Layken and Will’s love once again through so many hurdles. One thing from Will’s past finally made its way between them. I liked that the conflict was not entirely focusing on that something; it was more like internal conflict between them. Here, Will’s love was proved to be stronger than it seemed. Just made me fall deeper for him… and that journal Will wrote every day… oh God, is there any other guy who’s as romantic as Will Cooper? I loved every piece, but here is my favorite:

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

The heart of a man

Is no heart at all

If his heart isn’t loved by a woman.

The heart of a woman

Is no heart at all

If her heart isn’t loving a man.

But the heart of a man and a woman in love

Can be worse than not having a heart

Because at least if you have no heart at all

It can’t die when it breaks apart.

-Will Cooper-

I feel like hugging him in my arms when I read this…

What I liked best from this book is the appearance of other characters that very interesting. Beside Kel and Caulder (who hooked me up with their funny personality ever since book 1), there was their friend, Kiersten, who’s so witty just like Eddie, Layken’s best friend. Just look what this little girl said to Gavin about life:

“Sometimes things happen in life that you didn’t plan for. All you can do now is suck it up and start mapping out a new plan. ”

Isn’t it just so butterflying awesome?! :)

And a little advice from Will’s grandma is the best advice every guy could ever ask for:

“A guy can tell a girl he’s in love with her until he’s blue in the face.

Words don’t mean anything to a woman when her head’s full of doubt.

You have to show her.”

Oh, I just loved every one in this book!

During the first 5 chapters, the story ran smoothly and I laughed all the time while reading it. Seeing how Layken and Will played the role parents to Kel and Caulder was so damn interesting. And then the conflict came along… with a heartbreaking climax… Colleen just made me put Layken and Will on my ever after favorite book couples!

This series is seriously amazing! Hell, I think this is the best YA romance book for young couple out there. Like I said, this story is so realistic and would be a great reference about what to do for those who think they are about to have such true love in young age (or just everyone who think they are about to have true love in their life). I loved this series so freaking much. I just can’t wait to read what Colleen is going to present on book 3... 

Love, read, and review,

Cynthia D.

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Book Review: Slammed (Slammed #1) by Colleen Hoover

Slammed by Colleen Hoover

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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Read also:
Review of Point of Retreat (Slammed #2)!
Review of This Girl (Slammed #3)!

Well, Colleen is officially my favorite author now.

No explanation needed.

So last month I made a plan to devour all of CoHo’s books on February after I read Ugly Love and Never Never. I went around her website to find the reading order of her series. And Slammed series happened to be on the first line on the post so I decided to begin with this series. If Ugly Love was the one that made me fall in love with Colleen’s writing, then Slammed is the one that makes me totally deeply in undying love with Colleen’s writing. Really. I’m that in love with hers.

“You can’t run to another town, another place, another state. 
Whatever it is you’re running from –it goes with you. 
It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.”

Layken was having a very rough year in life through the death of her father. Being the oldest child in the family, Layken had to be the anchor to her mother and her 9 year old brother, Kel. As crushed as her heart, she should stay strong so their family could totally move on. Moving to Michigan was their next step to begin a new start. It could be a bad step. It could be a good one. Layken couldn’t guess it would be the latter, well, more like she wouldn’t want to. But maybe life was not that unfair to her after all. She only had to find out first.

The first time Will Cooper laid his eyes on the girl who just moved to the house next door, he knew that his life would be different start from this year. The first time he held her hand, he knew that he wouldn’t want to hold another girl’s hands. The first time he went out with her, he knew that she would be the only girl he ever really wanted in life. But who knew that life had this cruel habit of revealing the worst part in last minute. Just when he thought life would stop giving his rough years, it proved that life was really unfair to him after all.
Layken must be damned if life brought her up to the sky… only to slammed her down to the dirt, again. Meeting Will was the most beautiful gift she ever got. But what if her beautiful gift was bundled under sharp spikes? She knew that after one date that night with Will, she could see happiness for the first time after losing her dad. But then something –something that she could never imagine in her entire life- got on their way, leaving her heart broken for the second time that year.

Love could be the cruelest thing ever happened to ones’ life. Or that’s what Layken and Will could think of it now. When seeing each other every day was no longer give them happiness but sorrow. When holding on to each other seemed impossible now.

Layken and Will might be the unluckiest couple in the history of love. But surely nothing could get in the way, when the love itself was stronger than the storm that came. It would be up to them, whether they just chose to be slammed or they chose to slam them all in return.

God, I love this book so much. I read this book in one sitting! (Rarely happened these days… It’s the first on 2015). It’s kind of difficult for me to find a realistic love story in a book these days. Well, I must have been searching in wrong place… because (Where have I been in my life?) CoHo wrote this masterpiece years ago! Love love every single thing on this book! The poetry was all beautiful and heartbreaking. I’ve never been so heartbroken by poetry before. Loved Colleen’s writing style so freaking much. She had this thing to make every scene seemed alive with those little details. How she put young love in a very realistic situation that made me think that true love could really come just anytime. Loved how she made a damn heartbreaking scene looked not that heartbreaking, I mean it surely made me cry but I cried in acceptance, somehow. Loved every single lyric of The Avett Brothers’ songs written here. The characters of both Layken and Will were very well built. And what I love the most of this book was the storm that came between them was not in a form of ‘third person’ (I meant this not as a spoiler, alright? Just a little preview, I guess. You don’t think so? Well, sorry then…). When I thought things couldn’t get any better, it did perfectly. Colleen could not stop surprising us in this book.

Layken was really one of a kind for me. Even though sometimes I got annoyed by her stubbornness, I, in the same time, adored her as well. She’s so damn realistic, I loved her! And Will… ADSFKJDASFJHASFH!!!!!!!!

Okay.. okay…

Will is THE BEST BOOK BOYFRIEND EVER HAPPENED TO ME! How could he not?

He’s tall, handsome, and gorgeous.

He loves fiercely.

He is the best brother any sibling could ever have.

He has a good sense of humor.

He’s so responsible and polite.

Sounds common? Just wait.

HE IS A POET!!!!! A FREAKING POET!!

*dies momentarily*

OH DAMNIT JUST GIVE ME A WILL COOPER RIGHT THIS DAMN MINUTE!!!

God, guy who does poet is like a biggest turn on for me…
Will Cooper is the biggest turn on for me.

He’s so damn romantic and so dedicated to poetry world. I seemed couldn’t stop grinning during their every moment. I had to several times cover it up with awkward laughs so that people could not see how pathetic I was, keep grinning at a book (but then they thought how silly I was, keep laughing at a book. Oh, well, whatever.)

I could not wait to ‘devour’ the next book on this series: Point of Retreat (on my way, now). I knew it; my tbr February list must be so very blessed… :)

Love, read, and review,

Cynthia D.

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