"Maybe Someday" by Colleen Hoover

"My entire body is battling itself. My left brain is telling me this is somehow wrong, my right brain is wanting to hear her sing again, my stomach is nowhere to be found, and my heart is punching itself i the face with one arm and hugging itself with the other."
- Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

I waited so long to read this book. Those two months felt like an eternity! Colleen Hoover's Maybe Someday was released in March, but I told myself I could not download it until my semester ended. Therefore, on the first day of my summer, I downloaded it and proceeded to finish the book within two days. Because, honestly, how can you start reading anything by Hoover and actually put it down? I can't, anyway!

Sydney is sitting on her suitcase, in the rain, outside of the apartment that used to be hers (until today), crying. Guess her best friend and her boyfriend were closer than she realized. Oh, did I mention it was her birthday? She turned 22 today. Well, so far, 22 sucks. Her cab finally pulls up, for her to find that she left her purse inside of the apartment where the two people that she really doesn't want to see still are. Great. Now she really can't go anywhere. Crying harder now.

Just as Sydney was about to talk herself into going to get her purse from that dreadful apartment, a girl in a Hooters uniform appears. Weird, what is going on today? The Hooters girl tells her to hurry and get up because she is late for work and she is getting wet. Shocked, confused, and really out of other options, she follows the girl into an apartment just like the one she left, only it had four bedrooms instead of two. The Hooters girl leaves Sydney dripping wet in the living room. A boy comes out of one of the bedrooms, and she is suddenly aware of how see-through her shirt is and how pathetic she must look right now. He brings a blanket and a pillow to the couch for her.

She knows this boy. Ridge is the boy that plays the guitar on his balcony every night at 8 o'clock. She knew he was attractive from across the courtyard, but from across the living room -- WOW. His music is gorgeous, and she could listen to it every day. Okay, she DID listen to it every day. She pretended to go out onto her own balcony to do her homework, but she was actually just going out there to listen to him. She apparently was not good at hiding the fact that she was listening. He caught her, held up a piece of paper with his phone number, made her text him, and they've been talking about music for a couple of weeks now. She has been sharing the lyrics she wrote to his music while listening to him all those nights.  She speaks first, but he says nothing. Okay? Awkward? She speaks again, when she hears her phone. She has a text message. It's from Ridge? Why won't he just talk to me? She opens the message: Ridge is deaf.

Sydney is shocked. She can't believe that this boy is deaf when he creates such incredible music. This just makes him all the more intriguing to her. Maybe someday she will understand the way he hears the music.

Readers, I can't begin to describe to you how perfect this book is! The fact that Hoover chose to make one of the main characters deaf really brings color into the plot, and it's just the twist this love story needs. We can't always be with the one we long for, and Maybe Someday envelopes all of the emotions that comes along with that. While reading this, I noticed that a lot of Hoover's words were things I have thought before, but never knew how to say. She said them with a lyrical beauty, and touched every emotion within me as she did it.

Something unique about this book is that there is a soundtrack that includes all of the songs that the characters wrote together. Ridge and Sydney write songs together throughout the book, as mentioned in my teaser for the story.  Colleen Hoover, along with Griffin Peterson, composed the songs so that the readers could know and feel the songs that characters wrote together. I've listened to the songs, and it really took the book to the next level because hearing the songs makes it more personal than just reading the lyrics. Therefore, I suggest purchasing the soundtrack with the book so that you may hear the songs as they are written throughout the book. Also, it's good music, so it's good to listen to at anytime!

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"Losing Hope" by Colleen Hoover

" Moments like these with people like her are what make all the suffering worth it."
-Colleen Hoover, Losing Hope

Okay, Okay. I know. I'm completely OBSESSED and ADDICTED to everything written by Colleen Hoover. She's the best. Period. Done. Over. If you are reading this review and still haven't read any of her books, HELLO??? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?? Get off your tookus, purchase a copy of any of her books and get going!!!

As I've mentioned in a previous review, Losing Hope is the companion to Hopeless. Instead, the book is written from Holder's point of view. Hopeless was written from Sky's point of view. No, I won't give you the spill of the main plot again because I did that in my first review. To see the review on Hopeless, CLICK HERE!

The plot is the same of course, but everything is still different! I found out so many new details that changed the story completely! Leave it to Colleen to take a story that she's already written and add a twist that blow's the reader's mind. It sure blew mine away! Even though I knew what was going to happen, I still couldn't read fast enough to get to each new page of the story. Either I was super in love with the book, or I just couldn't get enough time with my book boyfriend, Holder. Either way, I just couldn't get enough of it!

Congratulations to Colleen on selling the rights for her books to be made into MOVIES!!! I understand it will be several years from now before it hits the big screen, but I. AM. SO. THERE!!!

This review was a little more freak out-ish than normal, so I apologize for my outrageous excitement! That just shows how much I loved and adored this book!

This is not a young adult novel. I would reserve this book for readers 18 years old and up. Because it is from a male point of view, there is much more language than the first book. Also, there is sexual content that is not suitable for young readers.

BIG shout out to Griffin Peterson for posing as Holder on the cover! He definitely gave me a visual of what my book boyfriend looks like! While we're talking about Griffin, he also has a new single on iTunes! To download his new single CLICK HERE!

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"Hopeless" by Colleen Hoover

"Not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes its ugly and you just have to learn to cope."
- Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

Okay, so I've fallen in love with Colleen Hoover because of the Slammed series, so when I discovered Hopeless, I jumped on it. So, sorry for the lack of variety, but I WILL be reading and writing about her again soon. I know my readers must love her, too! So, that's okay!

Hoover doesn't write the typical predictable love stories. That's what I love the most. In Hopeless, Sky finally talks her adopted mother into letting her attend public school for her senior year. She figured it couldn't be as bad as her books make it sound. Well, it turns out that, for the most part, her books were right. Everyone already created a reputation for Sky before she even got there. Luckily, she found a friend the first day that would help her through school, since her best friend was across the world in a foreign exchange program.

After the first day, Sky needed to do some grocery shopping. While at the store, she saw a guy that instantly got her heart racing and her stomach turning. What?! She never got this way over guys. Never once had she ever had any feelings to a guy. She always just felt numb around them. She wasn't sure why this guy did this to her, but it made her nervous. Trying to leave as fast as she could, he approached her in the parking lot. Still terrified, she turned to talk to him anyway. He asked for her name because she looked familiar to him, but she knew she had never met him. Soon enough they parted ways.

Shortly after her trip to the grocery store, she went out for her run. Typically, she runs in the morning, but she didn't today because it was the first day of school. During her run, she saw the guy from the store. He was running, too. Shirtless. If she wasn't getting faint from the heat before, she definitely was now!

He ended up in her first period class the next day. She just counld't get away from this guy! Sky really didn't know if she wanted to get away from him though. They end up being running partners, and she started to really like Holder. Well, Dean Holder, but everyone calls him Holder. They hit it off so well. They talk like they've never been strangers. Holder acts like he has Sky figured out so well, but she needs to figure him out..

Think you know how this story goes? Think again! Just when you think the story is going to go the way you imagine, Hoover takes you for a loop. Go ahead: think of the best twist that could possibly be in this story. You lost, Hoover has you beat, and she will shock you! Read Hopeless to see just how this story spins and why it is hopeless.

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After you fall in love with Sky and Holder in Hopeless, make sure you stay on the lookout for Losing Hope! It is the follow-up book for Hopeless. It will be Holder's story instead of Sky's.

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"Slammed" by Colleen Hoover

"Push your boundaries...that's what they're there for."
- Colleen Hoover, Slammed

Layken, along with her younger brother, Kel, and her mother, Julie, moved from Texas to Michigan after her father died. As soon as they pull the U-haul into the driveway, Kel sees a boy his age and instantly begins fighting him with an imaginary sword. Layken decides to sulk in the driver's seat, not excited about her new house -- not home. Kel approaches her and tries to bring her into the games. She hops out of the truck to chase after her little brother and his new friend when she runs into the little boy's older brother. His very cute older brother! There is an instant attraction between the two, and oh, what do you know? He lives across the street. PERFECT!!

After a few encounters over the next couple of days, Will, the cute boy across the street, asks her on a date. No dinner, no movie, but no disappointments. Layken couldn't have asked for a better date, and she couldn't wait to see him again.

Monday morning rolls around and Layken has to go to her new school. Lost and looking for her third period class, she sees Will! Not sure why he is there, she gets excited anyway and runs to him and hugs him. He pushes her away, wide-eyed. Why is he being so weird? She begins to assume he is there to visit his girlfriend, so she storms off, angry. He tells her to wait, just as a student comes outside of the classroom: "Mr. Cooper?"

OH. MY. GOSH. He's the teacher??

Sure, we've all had a crush on our teacher at some time. You get to class on that first day, and the teacher is young and SO cute. Don't deny it, it's happened to all of us! Especially for the boys. Countless times have I heard of the new "hot" teacher. Normally we just sit in our desk and drool over the teacher; we don't necessarily go on a date with him/her.

To be fair, Layken didn't know. What now? There is no way a teacher can date a student! They somehow have to stay away from each other, but how will that work when they live across the street and her desk is in the front row of his third period class? Find out in Slammed!

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO AN EXCERPT FROM "SLAMMED!!"
http://jschool.troy.edu/~advtech115/required.html
(I recorded this myself!)

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After reading Hoover's Slammed, make sure to read the sequel, Point of Retreat. It's from Will's point of view instead of Layken's but it picks up where the first left off. I didn't think Slammed could be topped, but Hoover proved me wrong! These books are "butterflying" amazing!

Let me know what you think! I hope you love these books just as much as I do!