Heart Bones

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This book is sad and devastating, Beyah experiences a lot of tragedy and hard times at such a young age and these experiences have shaped her as a person.

Her next door neighbor is rich boy Samson, who hides behind his camera with his secrets and mysteries. There’s an incredible build in intimacy, a slow burn romance that feels DEEP, and a mysterious quality to both our hero and the story as a whole. The description says, "It's the story of a woman chained to the memory of one horrifying night and the man whose love is the key to her freedom. It comes as a relief that Beyah was even able to contact and go to live with her absent father and his new family I might add. However, it is a personal choice for you to make whether you are comfortable reading about those elements of the book or not.

Beyah has never lived with her father before, but she needs a place to stay for the summer before she starts college so she goes.

Yet, she can’t deny that there’s something about Samson that intrigues her and the connection between them is too intense to ignore. i am so glad that beyah moved on with her life and didn’t let samson stop her from continuing on with her life like how she previously wanted. But when Hurricane Ike hit, Rake refused to take shelter and went back to the boat after leaving 13-year-old Samson at a church for safety.The idea of formative romances and embracing the ‘final summer of freedom’ before college are nothing new in new adult and young adult fiction, and Heart Bones wastes no time in following a similar path. i loved the slow reveal of the true beyah and samson and their secrets and past - they both are really like onions, lots of layers you have to peel back before the real them is revealed.

It’s one of the best books I’ve read all year, hands down, and the kind of story that you’ll want to reread with fresh eyes as soon as you turn the last page. in this story we follow this young girl named Beyah, who lives in a trailer park with an addict for a Mother.The ending was a bit rushed and I don’t know if I would have wanted it to follow a different path but I didn’t feel IT so much there. Her new family is wonderful – I genuinely loved that she forms a friendship with her stepsister, who is so kind and endearing.

Whatever it is that makes him up as a whole, I find myself viewing him as a project I want to take on. Still, the story is well worth reading and maybe I should just believe in fairytales more than I currently do. But with a few months left until college she’s left with nowhere to turn, so she winds up going to spend the summer with her father, whom she barely knows, on a peninsula in Texas. Yanagihara ( The People in the Trees, 2013) takes the still-bold leap of writing about characters who don’t share her background; in addition to being male, JB is African-American, Malcolm has a black father and white mother, Willem is white, and “Jude’s race was undetermined”—deserted at birth, he was raised in a monastery and had an unspeakably traumatic childhood that’s revealed slowly over the course of the book. Pegging the guy as a rich douchebag, Beyah soon realizes there's more to him that he lets on and that despite his purported wealth he is just as damaged as her.Our heroine goes on her own journey throughout the course of the book, but through it all, there’s that one guy who makes an impact. In case you DO want a membership, just read this book cause: (1) It’s so sad, it’s a mood; (2) After spending most of the 2nd half chapters sobbing my eyes out, I can confirm that I am now positively ✧ damaged ✧.