source: purchased
rating:★★★★★
from goodreads:
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.
my review:
favorite quotes:
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.
my review:
the more i read colleen’s books, the more i hate her because they are all so good and i never want them to end. she is definitely a mastermind. heart bones was amazing right from the start. colleen really knows how to reel in her readers and keep them wanting more. i finished the first half of this book over a couple days cause ya know life happens and you get busy but the second half was done in a couple hours!!! i definitely could have used a couple more chapters but i guess another book would suffice, get to writing colleen, i need to know what happens next!!
i loved beyah, her life kind of reminded me of mine but mine is not as tragic. i related to a lot of what beyah felt and i think that might be why i loved her so much. samson was an iffy character to me in the beginning but i grew to love him once i seen how their relationship grew. hearts bones shows that two broken people can really heal each other. sara was just the person beyah needed in her life and beyah was that for sara as well. they became the "sister" they both needed in their own ways. janean and brian were whatever to me, i only started to like brian after he let beyah be. but i guess he was trying??? and that is something beyah "needed" in her life?? idk whatever. alana was probably my favorite, even being somewhat of a background character. you always have these stories with evil step-mothers but not alana, she accepted beyah for who she was and did not try to impose her lifestyle on her. she was actually there for beyah when she needed it the most, a literal shoulder to cry on.
usually a story with so many secrets and so many hidden agendas is not interesting but the way samson kept playing on everything really made you want to keep reading to figure it out, to figure him out.. BUT IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST. everything that unraveled, all at once might i add, was not something you would have expected especially from rich perfect samson. you would think after all that went on, one would give up on the other but that was not the case. beyah fought until the end, she fought for what she thought was right, she fought for what her heart believed in. she was persistent and it paid off in the end. or did it?
favorite quotes:
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
“I think when you’re the worst of people, finding the worst in others becomes a survival tactic of sorts. you focus heavily on the darkness in people in hopes of masking the true shade of your own darkness.”
“Sometimes when you hate someone enough, you can’t help but lie awake in bed at night, wondering what life would be like if that person were dead.”
“People like me are extremely skilled at pretending we’re just fine.”
“Sometimes I believe personalities are shaped more by damage than kindness.”
“I am made of steel now. Come at me, world. You can’t damage the impermeable.”
“Maybe we both grew heart bones.”