Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

Book Review:

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Description:
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.

Review:
One of my favorite things about reading Colleen Hoover's writing is that she includes topics of reality, such as childhood neglect and poverty. Beyah essentially raised herself and we find out that Samson is in the same boat (no pun intended). Every day we see kids (outside of the book) fall through the cracks of the system and get stuck in situations like Samson where he has a criminal background because of choices he had to make in order to survive. Then we see kids like Beyah who live with the bare minimum and turn their lives around to be the opposite of their parents. And frankly those kids deserve everything they never had. I really enjoyed the secretive side of both Beyah and Samson and how they both realize that they are so much alike on the inside. There's a saying, "don't judge a book by its cover," and I think that fits these two perfectly. As for Sara, I'm really happy that her character was of the loving and supportive kind because that made a world of difference for Beyah and her time in Texas, otherwise the story would have been much different. Personally, I loved this book and the literal story it told about Beyah and Samson and what poverty, neglect, and homelessness was like for children. Far too many people experience these things and this helps put it in perspective for those who don't quite understand.