Slammed

I went back and read this one. Colleen has done it again. I love her books. If you have not I encourage you to check it out.

I loved it! I did not know this was the first in a series, but can't wait to read more.
This author loves to take on tough topics. There are people who might hate this book because of the way the characters handle certain situations, but remember, it's a fictional tale.
Great book.

oh jeez

https://overduepodcast.com/episodes/2023/9/4/ep-607-slammed-by-colleen-hoover-with-worst-bestsellers

if you read this for entertainment purpose, or are nostalgic of your time on wattpad, then you will have fun

listened on audible

my late teens self wouldve loved this. but it's so cringe now lmao

i don't even know what the plot was, seemed like things were being just tossed into the story. and all the main characters had to do what communicate and 99% of the problems would've been solved.

Buku pertama Colleen Hoover yang kubaca. Dan tidak cocok wkwkwk.
1. Insta love
2. Kemanjaan female protagonist nya
3. Plin plan male protagonist
Sebenarnya di akhir buku ak bingung ini buku sebenarnya mau menceritakan apa ya?
Terlepas dari poin2 diatas, ada 1 memorable moment, namun bkn dari main protagonists nya, ketika Eddie ultah, melibatkan bpk angkat & balon pink. Udah cuma itu saja yg sweet menurutku.

I honestly think I didn't enjoy this book as much as others because I did not like the main character Layken, and for me the characters can make or break the story.
I felt like she was very immature, bratty, and self-absorbed.
I understand that she went through a lot, and I actually have a lot of experience with someone close to me dying, but I still felt like she thought she was the only one with problems.
Most of the time I thought she was judging Will unfairly especially considering the circumstances. She was so focused on how everything affected her that she didn't see how everyone else was affected.
It's not to say she was a bad character she just wasn't my favorite character to read from which took away my enjoyment from the novel.
A character I would have liked to read more about was Eddie, she had such a unique personality considering her living situation.

The slam poetry was a great addition to the book. I love slam poetry and the pieces included in this novel were quite powerful.
I'm in no hurry to read the sequel but I'm definitely going to be checking out her other novels.

beraktam ezt a könyvet a “nyál” elnevezésű kollekciómba a kobón, mert ilyen kis előítéletes vagyok, aztán meg jól meglepődtem. persze nyáladzás is van benne, elvégre is alapvetően ez mégiscsak egy szerelmes lányregény, de közben meg olyan mély, komoly érzelmeket pedzeget, hogy párszor már rendesen a sírás kerülgetett.
néha laykent, a főszereplő lányt szívesen orrba gyűrtem volna, de aztán elgondolkodtam, hogy noha kívülről szemlélve rettentően irritálóan viselkedett, belülről megélni mindazt, amin keresztülment azért teljesen más. meg hát én is rengetegszer reagálok irracionálisan sokkal kevésbé fontos és megrázó dolgokra. nem könnyű szembenézni azzal, hogy milyen visszataszító lehet ez, ezért próbáltam elnéző lenni vele szemben. ettól függetlenül nem a legfrankóbb karakter a történetben.

ha már belefutottam ebbe a slam poetrys sztoriba, végre megnéztem egy videót is a témában, hogy legyen valami fogalmam a dolgokról. nem tetszett. viszont a könyvhöz rengeteget ad hozzá, hogy e köré épül, írott formában sokkal jobban bejött.

a lényeg, hogy ugyan a szokásos vergődéssel tarkított, de annyira jól megírt, fontos dolgokhoz érdekesen nyúló regény a slammed, hogy egész bátran tudom ajánlani. azoknak meg főleg, akik szeretik is a slamet.

(jóhát, beleolvastam a negatív véleményekbe és lehet, hogy inkább mégsem ajánlom, csak legföljebb azoknak, akik komálják a szenvelgést.)

I've known for years that the best advice I've ever gotten came from my father when I was a teen. He really only said it once, but he told me to try to use my head AND my heart equally in love and relationships. I got a lot of good advice from him, but this goes through my head to help me navigate every relationship I've been in. Thanks, Dad.

I devoured this book in a little over three and a half hours. I thought I'd just get in 20 minutes of reading before bed. Totally figured this was going to be another not-so-great YA/NA romance I'd read as fluff. Nope! I'm writing this exhausted today because I lost a lot of sleep from not wanting to put this down. Don't regret it a bit.

I laughed, I cried, I loved this book.

she can really write drama and romance in one... soap opera feelings again, but when I got it, was hooked already.

!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS NOTHING TO SAY. 
I JUST LOVED IT.
I DAMN WELL FUCKING FUCKED UP CRAZY ASS MUCH LOVED IT.
WOW. WOW. WOW.

Considering this is Colleen's first book, I could give this a 4.5 because of the plot, there are some points of the story that I was like, okay, I heard that one before, but no, this is definitely a 5 star kind of book for me because of the poetry. Poetry is not my first love, however when I was introduced to it.. (Wait hold that thought, continue reading that on http://charismadelrosario.blogspot.com/2014/12/poetry.html)

Anyway, poetry/slam poetry on this book wasn't just a shadow of the story. It is part of the story, it might have not been a whole concrete idea of a book it it wasn't for it.

And they way she wrote it and how reactions were presented after a conflict was a style I have only read from her.

What an awesome writer.

Totally a five.

This was an emotional book that had me hooked from the beginning. Lake and Will have such intense feelings for each other and the book is full of situations that challenge those feelings. The poetry slams throughout are also great.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Like many, I picked up this book because of the Goodreads-inspired notoriety that Colleen Hoover had been receiving. Somewhere around 7pm last night, I began to think I'd made a big mistake. 3 chapters in, this book was clearly not intended for 20-something males. My only Goodreads comment to that point? “Starting to feel like Twilight without sparkly vampires.” I seriously thought that I was going to have to bail out.

Around 1am, I finally, groggily, turned off my light and went to bed. In the 6 hours that had preceded, I had somehow, mysteriously, finished the book. I literally had not been able to sleep until I was done.

So what happened?

To be fair, Slammed is not the greatest work of fiction ever. There is a high degree of unbelievability (some might say Twilight-esque) in how quickly Lake, the main character, and Will, her “omgsohotz” neighbor fall in love. The story proceeds rather bouncily from junction to junction, dragging the reader along in the expectation that he will simply accept the characters and their current predicaments. All the common elements of the teenage love story - a love that society will not allow, a family dynamic that is all at once frustrating yet uber-advanced (including the proverbial wise sage of a younger brother), a rebellious, yet equally sagacious best friend, etc. - are present within the first few chapters of this book. Early on, I felt as though I could see every plot point and difficulty.

What transpired over the course of that 6 hours changed my mind. The biggest driver of that change: I got to see characters who were not all that different from me. No one had superpowers or mystical abilities; there was no omnipresent villain that everyone was running from (heck: apart from one exception, there weren't even overly ugly humanistic natures chasing after our heros). There was merely life, along with all of its joys and heartbreaks.

This book forces your soul to bare itself. Any author who can do that - even just a little bit - deserves recognition.

On to book #2.