
Title: Slammed
Author: Colleen Hoover
Publisher: Createspace
Release Date: January 1st, 2012
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After the unexpected death of her father forces eighteen year old Layken and her family to move across the country, away from everyone and everything she knows, her outlook on life is anything but hopeful.
Enter Will Cooper: the attractive twenty-one year old new neighbor with an intriguing passion for slam poetry. After a night together that turns out to be everything but the expected, both Layken and Will are left with feelings they never knew they could have. Unfortunately in Layken's life, things are never what they seem. Just as quickly as it develops, their relationship is derailed by a shocking revelation, sparking a tumultuous battle between their hearts and their ethics.
As if the dramatic turn of events in her life isn't enough, Layken is slammed again when her mother reveals a secret of her own. A secret so intense, all of Layken's current problems pale in comparison to her seemingly insurmountable future. Unable to confront the changes that lie ahead of her, Layken ignores her conscience as she turns to Will for solace. Struggles ensue as both Layken and Will search for a balance between that which keeps them apart and the feelings that pull them together.
My $0.02
The second I started Slammed I couldn’t stop. It wasn’t because the story was just that gripping but the author’s writing
definitely was. From the get-go, Ms.
Hoover’s writing sucked me in so fast and so hard that I was star-struck and
couldn’t do anything but continue reading.
Ms. Hoover’s writing was beautiful, eloquent, peaceful, calm, and very
inspirational. When I first started
reading, I didn’t know what to expect but because I was so mesmerized by
Hoover’s writing I kept on reading and reading and reading. Soon enough, I was madly hooked because
Slammed starts off with a bang and you find yourself questioning what’s going
to happen next and why this is happening and who this is and…basically, you
find yourself asking the five W’s of life:
Who? What? Where?
When? and Why?
But as soon as I was sucked in, I was kicked back
out and landed on my derriere. Within
the first few chapters, there’s a shocking revelation that for me, personally,
I couldn’t shake it. I started Slammed
during the evening of one night and I was excited that I was so hooked on it
that I didn’t want to stop reading but the following day when this explosive
secret was revealed I was a bit deterred from my reading. I guess you could even say I was weirded out,
creeped out, yucked (???) out, even.
Afterwards, I stopped reading for a bit and I was about to start another
book when I realized I had put Slammed on hold. I decided to go ahead and finish it because honestly, what could it
hurt!?
After I overcame that hurdle, I ran into another
one. Our leading MC, Layken aka Lake,
got under my skin quite a few times.
There were various times that she seemed clinging and desperate for Will
Cooper’s attention. She seemed like that
so much that I was turned off by her character for most of the beginning of the
book. But as I kept pushing myself to
read further and further into the story, I became so involved with what was
happening with the storyline that all those concerns and worries kind of got
pushed to the back of my mind. I mean,
they were still there but they went from being this big
to
being this big.
In other words, there were other pressing issues at hand that my mind
wasn’t so focused on them.
As the story unfolds, I found myself liking it more
than I thought I was going to. I didn’t
expect to like it as much as I did because well…I had a hard time getting
through parts of it. But something about
the way Hoover writes makes it hard to not get lost in her words. Like there’s more to the story and her words
than what is really being said. The
three characters that I felt had the biggest impact throughout the story were
Lake’s mom, brother and best friend.
They were like the constant reminders that you need in life—that no
matter how hard life threw its hardest punch, you just get right back up and
punch life square on in the face as well!
Overall, I didn’t like Slammed but I liked
Slammed. It’s one of those where I’m
unsure how to feel. I like it but at the
same time there were stuff that I didn’t like and then I find myself weighing my
options, seeing if the like outweighed the didn’t like. After sitting here, gathering my thoughts, I think
I…liked Slammed more than I didn’t like Slammed. The ending to Slammed was very powerful and
if I could, I would quote the whole thing. Actually, there were so many lines
from Slammed that I want to quote; I
want to print out a bunch of lines from the book and tape them all over my
bedroom! Slammed was very inspirational
and it reminds you to be strong no matter what life throws at you and it
reminds you that everything will be fine and it will all find a way to work itself
out.
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LOL. I'm glad you ended up liking it. I can't certainly see where aspects of it would have been hard for you given you're the age Lake is in the book. At 35 y/o, my reaction was a ton different to the "situation". ;) I agree there are a ton of quotables. Did you go to her webpage and see the poet perform "The Lake"? http://colleenhoover.com/the-lake/
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I know how this feels to be confused about how you feel about a book. This is part of the reason that everyone enjoys different books. I think I will be looking into this one! Thank you for the review!
ReplyDeleteHmmmm sounds interesting. I am now very curious about this book. I can say your review has definitely made me put this on my TBR list.
ReplyDeleteThoroughly enjoyed this book! I read it in one sitting. I just couldn't put it down! I highly recommend it to anyone who loves to read good fiction. I can honestly say not many books can make me cry, but this one made me cry more than once.
ReplyDeleteI loved this book so much! I couldn't stop reading it and when I finished it I was soooo crying.. It was beautiful!
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