And you remember that first binge read I mentioned at the start of this post? You know the one that brought me to Colleen’s books in the first place? When I did that binge read, almost exactly 6 years ago to the day, I started with, you guessed it, 8 books of hers to read. So that’s what I did…and you know what’s funny? When I set out to catch up on her books, I realized that I had 8 books of hers to read. You see, I realized I had to catch up…I had to right my wrongs….as Dorinda would say I had to make it nice…I had to catch up y’all! Like real behind.īut y’all I am making right, or should I say, I made it right. I have been behind on her books for a couple of years now. I’ve bought so many of her books for others, telling them “you NEED to read this book”, and talked about them with anyone that I could countless times.īut I have a confession to make.

Felt every word and emotion…and then some. She has truly given me some of the best books of my reader life. Through every new book she has continued to give me some of the most incredible, emotional, and beautiful stories that I have ever read. I then spent the next week and a half falling in love with a boy who was taking the lake, falling in love with a boy with a little less Hope, falling in love with finding a missing Cinderella, falling in love with the music of the heart…and it was THE BEST.Įver since that binge read I have read everything I could get my hands on by Colleen Hoover. You see after reading Ugly Love, I went out to the bookstore and bought every book of hers that I could get my hands on. Reading that book, Ugly Love, also started one of my favorite binge reads of all time. Me and my favorite shirt, with my favorite line from Slammed. The fact that after over almost 6 years of reading her books they’re all still with me? Well that my friends is the true tell of an amazing writing and storyteller.

Years later, I can still remember reading each and every one of her books, where I was, how I felt, what I was thinking. She gave me something with that book, and every book after, that will stay with me forever. The first time I was lucky enough to meet Colleen Hoover, I told her that story…because it is truly something I will never forget. It was that book that brought me to Colleen Hoover and her books, and that solidified her as one of my favorite authors.

That book made me cry in the middle of an amusement park ride line, and you know what? I fucking loved it. It was a book unlike anything I’d ever read before. It was a book so emotionally gripping, so breathtaking, and so heartbreaking yet utterly beautiful. I can still remember the first time I read a book by Colleen Hoover.

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