“There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.”
Author: Colleen Hoover
Narrated By: Elizabeth Louise and Sebastian York
Genre: Romance
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars
Spicy Meter: 3 fire emojis
Narration: 4.5 mikes
Content Warning: Touches on subjects like terminal illness in young people, car crashes, family loss, addiction, teenage pregnancy, and lost custody. Has some stalker-ish aspects to it. Has explicit sexual content.
“Confess” is a heartbreaking story that follows Auburn Reed, a young girl who’s still getting over her lost, teenage love. That’s when she meets Owen Gentry, an artist who paints other people’s confessions. Little did she know, this was not the first time they had met.
“Confess” is eerily similar to “Reminders of Him”. Or, well, that should go the other way around, because “Confess” was published 7 years before “Reminders of Him”, but, you know, my bad for not reading these in their proper order. Anyways, so many of the core components are there. It was pretty predictable.
I listened to an audiobook of this novel and it was almost perfect, I just couldn’t vibe with Owen’s voice in the beginning. I don’t even know how to explain it.
I loved this book, but some characters were just too one-dimensional. Mean for the sake of being mean. And that just didn’t sit well with me. I can’t go into too many details without going into heavy spoiler territory, but basically I couldn’t see the motive behind the “villain”. That just tarnished how I enjoyed the story Colleen constructed.
Anyways, I wouldn’t say this is a bad book, it just wouldn’t be the first CoHo book I would recommend when introducing someone to her backlog.
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“And I need you to remember that anyone can make love, but I’m the only one who deserves to make love to you.”
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