Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events: First Chapter/Intros, now hosted by Socrates Book Reviews; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.
Today’s feature is a recent download: Heart Bones, by Colleen Hoover.
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Intro: Summer 2015:
There’s a picture of Mother Teresa that hangs on our living room wall where a television would go if we could afford the kind of television that hangs on the wall, or even a home with the kind of walls that could hold a television.
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Teaser: It’s interesting. It’s like he puts the focus on the saddest part of whatever is in view of his lens, but the picture as a whole is still beautiful. (p. 40%).
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Synopsis: 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.
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Would you keep reading? I am intrigued by everything I have read so far.
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Sounds good!
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Thanks, Catherine, I think so, too.
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Interesting intro…I’ve yet to read anything by this author but, I know many love her books. I do have, “It Ends With Us” by her on my audio holds list from the library. Looking forward to it.
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Thanks for visiting, Diane, and I think It Ends With Us was my favorite by this author. Enjoy! I was just at your blog commenting on The Vanishing Half, which I have on my shelf…and now must start reading soon!
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I like the intro and it sounds like it would be an interesting read.
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Thanks, Donna, I’m looking forward to this one.
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I have already read this one and I loved it.
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Good to know, Deanna!
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Good intro and teaser! Sounds like a good book.
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Thanks, Yvonne, I hope to enjoy this one! Enjoy yours.
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