November 9

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At one point she tells him “I need to get back to my date” and it says that he “lean[s] closer and sandwich[es] her against the wall,” then he says, “Don’t be like that . I think it’s a little too simple, it reads like a book for teenagers, but with topics teenagers should not read about.

Can Ben’s relationship with Fallon – and simultaneously his novel – be considered a love story if it ends in heartbreak? In her debut novel, Colleen Hoover jumps in with an emotion-packed romantic story that captures all the confusion and titillation of first love, from a teen girl’s perspective. And those are said by Ben, the male protagonist, the one that's supposed to make us fall in love with him.

We love to say them, we love to share them, we love to make pictures with them, we just seriously love them. for one day that is), she leaves him while he’s in the worst place of his life, after he begged her to stay and then be maddd when he found comfort somewhere else.

LITERALLY THE ENTIRE FIRST CHAPTER IN BEN’S PERSPECTIVE IS TALKING ABOUT HER BOOBS AND WHAT COLOR UNDERWEAR SHE IS WEARING. The book's main character, Lily, experiences domestic violence at a young age, witnessing her father's abuse towards her mother, on top of experiencing it firsthand, and then she ends up in a violent relationship as an adult. She will candidly talk about where her characters are going, what she likes to reveal about her plots and what she hold dear until it is develop into something she is truly proud of. This was horrible, problematic and I kind of wish I could go back in time so I can prevent myself from picking this up. Reacting to the cruelty of his words, a young man in a neighboring booth slides next to Fallon and claims to be her boyfriend.Homeboy (Ben) eavesdrops on a conversation Fallon has with her father in a restaurant, then when she says she hasn’t had a boyfriend, he SLIPS INTO THE BOOTH NEXT TO HER AND PRETENDS TO BE HER BOYFRIEND?

Why does she think it would be a normal reaction for Ben/her hypothetical boyfriend to dump her after witnessing her argument with her father? She was one of the first to be picked up by a large publishing house for her first book entitled Slammed. Here Colleen Hoover has emerged with a new story based on Sky, a high school senior who has her first romantic encounter with Dean Holder, a boy with a reputation and a mysterious past. There were points I was sad, points i was angry (it’s been a while since I’ve been this upset at a character…. That's just what conservatives tell young girls to discourage them from having sex: that they will loose something of themselves, "dirtying" themselves if they have sex.Let me start from the beginning: I really liked the premise of this book and it was one of my most anticipated reads of the year, I was really excited when it came out and wanted to love it! It's just a complete disregard of her wishes and discomfort (which she did voice when she didn't want to wear the dress and which becomes apparent if you can read the most basic form of social clues), if anything this situation was just some kind of powerplay for him and honestly warrants a police report.