CONFESS
BY COLLEEN HOOVER
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.
Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.
For once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping some major secrets from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.
The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as art. All he would have to do to save their relationship is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin…
Review:
Review:
One’s life can be changed by a
cruel twist of fate or by the hand of the person who’s promised to help you. At
least fate is unbiased. The person claiming to have your best interest at heart
while stabbing the knife in your back is some of the worst pain I could
imagine.
When the reader is introduced to
Auburn, she’s already been dealt more blows that most twenty-one-year-olds
could recover from and still keeps going. She’s strong, stronger than those
around her give her credit for being. I think a lot of people would give up and
say this is my second chance, so I’m going to play the hand I’ve been given
according to the rules assigned by other people. Not Auburn. She has to make
some shitty choices, but she doesn’t wallow. (I would have wallowed at least a
little bit.) Auburn was never the character who said I have to give up and
accept what is going on. No, she played the game until she could find the
advantage.
Owen is a man living with the
sins of others. He’s a confessional without a priest or the promise of
absolution. An accident robbed him of the loving family he grew up knowing. Now,
he’s doing anything he can to salvage what he has left, even if it means lying
to the woman fate brought back to him. He knows sometimes you have to accept
the fate that has been thrust upon you. When you love someone, you have to be
willing to fight for them and you have to willing to let them go. True strength
and love comes from knowing the difference.
Confess put me in the unique
position of understanding both Auburn and her antagonist, Lydia. While I do
think Lydia is a bitch, I don’t think she is heartless, and even though I would
like to think I would handle things differently than she does, I can’t say for
certain I would if I was in that situation. The tension between Auburn and
Lydia creates an interesting conundrum—one that I hope I never experience
because, I confess, I’m not sure which way I would fall.
Confess could be a hard book to
read because it deals with a subject we as parents, or even just as humans, don’t
want to acknowledge most of the time: death. The story is so beautifully
written. It doesn’t gloss over the pain, but it doesn’t drag it out until the
last death rattle is heard. In her unique way, Colleen has managed to bring a
not so bright and sunny subject matter into a book that shows a lot about life
and love and how intertwined the two of them are with each other.
I must also confess that I like a
clear-cut happy ending. Somehow, Colleen has managed to craft a story that does
have a clear-cut happy ending but leaves room for you to think, wonder, and
draw your own conclusion on what will happen to the characters when the first
confession comes to light. I found this oddly satisfying at the same time I’m
like what the fuck, I need an answer. It’s a cliffhanger without a cliffhanger.
And, in my opinion, Colleen is one of the rare wordsmiths who can make this type
of ending work. If there was a master class for writers, Colleen should teach
it, although I think her talent is unteachable, she’s just a natural.
Confess is a story I would highly
suggest you read. There may be times you see yourself reflected in the words on
the page, even if they were true only for brief moments of time. The mirror
Confess holds up shows that we all have doubts, we all have fears, we all have
something that torments us, we all have things we wish we could change, and we
all have thoughts we’d never want someone else to know. Confess is an artwork
of words that are simple in their complex beauty.
CONFESS by Colleen Hoover
Atria Books | Paperback
On-Sale: 03/10/15
Paperback ISBN: 9781476791456, $16.00
eBook ISBN: 9781476791463, $7.99
320 pages
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About the Author:
Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slammed, Point of Retreat, This Girl, Hopeless, Losing Hope, Maybe Someday, Finding Cinderella, and Ugly Love. She lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. Please visitColleenHoover.com.
Find Colleen online:
Website: www.ColleenHoover.com
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/ColleenHoover
Twitter: @ColleenHoover
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