Simultaneously, Beyah slowly becomes acclimated to her father, stepmom, and new stepsister-Sarah. Despite this, he is the only person Beyah speaks to about her mother’s death, her life in Kentucky, and her scholarship.ĭue to their immediate connection, Beyah and Samson agree to date but only as a summer fling or “the shallow end.” Neither wants to become too attached, however, it doesn’t go as planned. The pair bond over watching the sunrise, a love of the ocean, and damaged pasts that go unspoken for the majority of the book. Later, Beyah discovers her neighbor to be Samson, a boy she’d met on the journey to her father’s home-whom she’d falsely accused of trying to pay for “services” when he was trying to be kind by offering her money.ĭespite the differences in their wealth and background, which are later proven untrue, Samson and Beyah hit it off immediately. This home is far cry from the trailer she lived in with her mother, existing alongside beach homes where the upper class live. Upon arriving in Texas, without any clothes or belongings, her father drives her to the home he shares with his new wife. She did this without telling him about her mother’s death or the volleyball scholarship she received, claiming that “he’d done nothing to help, and he shouldn’t get credit” for her success. Beyah is forced to call her dad, who’d recently skipped her graduation, and ask to stay with him until she leaves for college. Heart Bones takes off from the start with the main character, Beyah Grim, discovering her mother’s body in their home following an overdose. I’d read all the big ones: It Ends with Us, November 9, Verity, and Ugly Love before delving into her less popular books. So much so that I’d managed to read seventeen out of the twenty-six books she’s published within her career in five months. There was a time following a stint at summer camp-where I was first introduced to her stories-that her novels were virtually all I wanted to read. My favorite author, whose books I will read without fail, is Colleen Hoover.

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