REVIEW:

Is it just me, or is Heart Bones a really gross title? Makes me think of something you dread finding in your take-out meal.

For the characters in Colleen Hoover’s 2020 novel, heart bones are something you grow when you fall in love that make an actual broken heart possible. Yeah, okay.

Since CoHo* has been all over the place lately in terms of genre, it’s helpful to know going in that this is a return to her sweet spot - New Adult romance. If you haven’t read one of those before, it basically means you’re going to be a fly on the wall while of-age teenagers engage in bedroom business time. Once again, I feel compelled to use the word gross.

Honestly, it really doesn’t matter what the plot is. Picking up a Hoover novel means you’re going to be sucked into a cliched yet somehow still original page-turner that you’ll read in one sitting. This one falls to the middle of the CoHo pack for me, so let’s go with 3.5 stars.

Heart Bones (gross) is available as part of the Kindle Unlimited program (as of 3/25/20).

*CoHo is a nickname for Coleen Hoover used by her fans, known as CoHorts.

PUBLISHER 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.