
Even though Beyah and Samson have agreed to keep their tentative relationship in the “shallow end” Beyah falls madly in love with him. Beyah met Samson only because she came to live with her father in Texas after her mother died of a drug overdose, but she has never met anyone who has accepted her despite her background. In the romance Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover, Samson Bennett assures Beyah Grim that hearts cannot really break because they do not have bones. For 250 pages, this book will hit you hard, and make everything positive in the end.The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Hoover, Colleen. The ending was beautiful and romantic, and I let out the biggest sigh and broke out in a huge smile. I loved their relationship, and even when it was making me frustrated, I understood, and that’s the important part. They truly connected and came together in more ways than one. I cared for everyone involved (even the side character) and just felt this entire book.įor Samson and Beyah to have a romance over the summer and for be to not even feel a *twinge* of insta-love is all I ever want in a faster-paced romance. Desperation for hope and a step forward had me tearing up. I won’t be able to ever understand the choices and reasons that they made them, and that really pulled on me. I adored these characters and felt for them in their struggles and trials. This had the lows and highs and all the inbetween.

Once again, I’m here with a broken heart, that has been stitched back together by the kind of soul-searching contemporary romance I didn’t know I was craving. I’m a Colleen Hoover fan for life, this is a fact. What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current is coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect he comes from a family of wealth and privilege.īut one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. With only two short months separating her from the future she’s built for herself and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim.įorced to call her last resort, Beyah has no other option than to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows.īeyah’s plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.


Forced to carve her own path alone, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah’s parents ever gave her.
