Reminders of Him
Reminders of Him - Colleen Hoover
my review : ✮✮✮✮✮
Let me start by saying I have only read Verity and It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, and this is personally my favorite.
I find people’s relationships with Colleen Hoover’s books to be incredibly personal. That’s why I hated reviewing It Ends With Us! So many people love it - who am I to say that I thought it was great or average or life-changing? Colleen’s ability to evoke such a visceral response is testament enough to her great writing.
Damn this chick knows how to write about emotions! This book covers grief, motherhood, love, loss, forgiveness… basically the whole human condition and somehow it’s STILL a romance that makes you develop a big fat crush. Someone on Goodreads said it best, “Ledger is the blueprint” …I could not have said it better myself.
Colleen is the master of impossible situations. She is someone who makes me happy that storytelling exists. That’s truly how I felt closing this book - how lucky are we that story telling exists!!!??? That words can evoke such feeling? And this book is so accessible! Her writing is so easy to get lost in. I find that so refreshing.
I left this book feeling grateful and empathetic… and about a thousand other emotions. It is such a strong reminder to be kind. I have such an issue with judgment... I am constantly trying to work on it, and this book is a nice fresh slap across the face when it comes to thinking you have other people figured out.
This would translate well to a movie as long as the casting is absolute perfection.
This book made me really want to talk to you guys. So many of you have or are currently reading it! I am trying to figure out how to make that a possibility in the future. In the meantime, please let me know what you thought of the book. Also - who the hell would you cast as Ledger???
you’ll love this book if you love:
Colleen Hoover, enough said
A story that won’t just be an emotional rollercoaster, but completely expand your worldview (at least in my case)
my favorite quote:
“Maybe it doesn’t matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can. And in the off chance that the people we lose are still somehow able to hear us, maybe we should never stop talking to them.”
