She loved the name Layla, after the Eric Clapton song. She and my dad argued for nine months over what I would be named. She never calls me by the name she legally gave me. Lake, stop being such a downer, my mom says, handing me the keys to the house. A household that can’t afford to remain in Texas and in the only home I’ve ever known. Long enough that my nine-year-old brother, Kel, doesn’t cry every time we talk about him, but recent enough that we’re being forced to accept the financial aftermath that comes to a newly single-parented household. It’s been six months since he passed away. I slide the door down and pull the latch shut, locking up eighteen years of memories, all of which include my dad. KEL AND I LOAD THE last two boxes into the U-Haul. 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. 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. 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. 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. She appears resilient and tenacious, but inside, she's losing hope. Or it can feel like a slam to the heart.Ĭolleen 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.įollowing the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken becomes the rock for both her mother and younger brother. Nothing I've read since Point of Retreat has even come close to measuring up.From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hopeless and Losing Hope.įalling in love can feel like poetry. I could gush about your books all day! I have discovered one downside though.
I like hot and steamy as much as anybody but it doesn't take the place of plot and character development.
Slammed and Point of Retreat proved something I've been thinking as I read book after book in the New Adult genre. So I started it, and Will totally had me at grilled cheese sandwiches :-) Well, I figured it had to be fairly good if it was her "favorite book ever". It's funny how we tend to shy away from the unfamiliar.Ī couple of weeks ago I wasn't sure what to read next and asked a friend on goodreads to recommend something and she said Slammed was her favorite book ever. I then read the synopsis to Slammed and passed. Thanks for the add :) I have to say you are just brilliant! I read Hopeless back in late January and immediately wanted another Colleen Hoover book.
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