Travelling Through Pages

This is one of my all time favorite books. I read this book when Colleen Hoover was a self published author. I don’t know if it was a freebie. At that time, so many books were free. You would get an email with hundreds of free books each week. It also could have been 99 cents (so many books were that price from self published authors). After this book, I was desperate to get my hands on any Colleen Hoover book. This book is so angsty, like stomach drop angst. I vividly remember staying up all night reading this book and then downloading the second book in the series. There are three books in the series.

So What It’s About:

Following the unexpected death of her father, eighteen-year-old Layken becomes the rock for both her mother and younger brother. She appears resilient and tenacious, but inside, she’s losing hope. Then she meets her new neighbor Will, a handsome twenty-one-year-old whose mere presence leaves her flustered and whose passion for poetry slams thrills her.

Not long after a heart-stopping first date during which each recognizes something profound and familiar in the other, they are slammed to the core when a shocking discovery brings their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together and the forces that tear them apart. Only through the poetry they share are they able to speak the truth that is in their hearts and imagine a future where love is cause for celebration, not regret.