Review- Confess (Colleen Hoover)

Synopsis

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 Owen is keeping 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…                                   - Goodreads.com

My Review 

Confess was my second Colleen Hoover novel, and solidified her in my auto buy authors list.

Confess, surrounds the two main characters Auburn and Owen who start a mutually beneficial relationship when Owen is searching for someone to help him in his gallery and Auburn is looking to earn some easy cash. Little do they know that their story actually started many years before. Both have led troubled lives with many trials and their story is woven together beautifully.  I can’t say much about this book without giving away some big spoilers. So I’m going to make this short.

The art in this book was beautiful, the fact that the author supplied art at all was amazing and it somehow added to the dynamic of the book. Each artwork told its own story, based on a confession that Owen drew (and were actually supplied by genuine readers of Colleen Hoover, or so I am told).

While funny, and romantic the book definitely holds your feelings at ransom especially near the end. The epilogue itself is a tear jerker and brings everything around in a full 360.

If you’re a Colleen Hoover fan, and you haven’t read this yet I highly suggest you get your caboose into gear and give it a try. This is also a great one to start out with if your new to her works, as the content is less challenging  than some of her other novels such as Hopeless.

My rating: 4/5

Top Ten Tuesday (21)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the amazing Broke And The Bookish.

Top Ten Books I'd Love To See as Movies/TV

Wow there are so many books I'd love to see as either TV or Movies. After a quick look through my books these are the ones I came up with. Hope you enjoy and leave me a comment with your TTT.

Movies

While I'm not really into horror movies. I think that The Merciless has all the makings of a good horror movie. It's got lots of suspense, blood shed and mind-fuckery. The Program is one of my  favorite books and I would love to see it as a movie, but I just don't know if they could pull it off. There's a lot of deep emotion and inner turmoil that goes on which may be hard to translate to the big screen.

  

This Song Will Save Your Life is a great coming of age story that would make a great indie film. Somewhere along the lines of Adventureland and The Way Way Back. The F*ck It List is also a kind of coming of age story that while is about cancer, the main focus is more on how to deal with it when it's your best friend who is dying. The novel deals with it in such a funny way but with a lot of heartfelt moments. Lastly Stolen: A Letter to My Captor, is one of my all time favorite books. It's one that makes you think and sometimes has you rooting for the 'bad' villain of the story. I would love to see this as an independent film made by an Australian film company. I think it has so much potential.

TV Series

    

These 3 would make awesome TV shows I reckon. I imagine Magic Bites (Kate Daniels series) to have a kind of Buffy feel to it with it's kick-ass lady lead. Stray, also has a strong female lead and with all the sexiness that goes on, I could see it as another True Blood type series. White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements Series) would be a more teenage friendly show, but still with some great fantasy elements that are a bit different from your average vampire and shape-shifter.

Deadly Class would make a great anime. While it is a little bit gorey and there's a lot of bloodshed, I could definitely see it as a R18 anime. Burn for Burn I would imagine as a kind of Pretty Little Liars type show with lots of mystery and intrigue.

What books would you like to see on the bigscreen/TV? Let me know below :)

May Wrap-Up

Wow we are half way through the year!! It's gone so fast, I can't believe it, and with the beginning of June, I celebrated my 25th Birthday...bring on the quarter life crisis haha. But I digress, May was a pretty good reading month for me. Bout of Books helped me push through a few books, but there were also a few I didn't get to read that I had planned on.

Finished

     

 

So this month during the Bout of Books Read-a-Thon, I started Ouran High-school Host Club, since I've really been enjoying the anime. I can't say it's my favorite Manga, but it's pretty good and the characters translate well on paper and screen. I also continued with the Seabreeze series by Abbie Glines with Because of Low, which was a quite cute read that had lots of sexual tension. Continuing on with the contemporary reads I read To All The Boys I've Loved Before which I had been wanting to read for such a long time and it did not disappoint. This month I thought I better get reading some books that contributed to the challenges I am participating in this year, so I read The Sin Eater's Daughter, which is a debut author and also fantasy. I had kind of mixed feelings on this book, but in the end it was quite enjoyable if you can make it through the slow start. Lastly, I finished the month off with the romance The Marriage Trap, the second in the series. It plays on the typical millionaire trope, but was a nice light read.

Up Next In June

For June, I think I'm going to try and catch up on a few series that I've started this year. First up is Magic Burns, the second book in the Kate Daniels series. If I can get my hands on it, P.S. I still Love You, will be a definite read for this month. I really enjoyed To All the Boys I've Loved Before and I need to know what happens next. In May, I meant to read Crash Into You, but unfortunately didn't get the time to get to it, so that's on my list for this month. 

   

   

Other Favourites

So last month I became obsessed with Pinterest. I remember everyone talking about it ages ago, but I never really saw the appeal. But in the last couple weeks I have pinned an insane amount of things haha everything from clothes to hair to book related things, recipes and things that describe me in a nutshell. If you want to check it out my boards, click here.

So I also got Netflix last month and have spent alot of time watching new to me TV series. One of my faves this month is Blue Mountain State. It's a few years old, and is focused on College football. But unlike Friday Night Lights doesn't take itself too seriously and is reminiscent of American Pie if it were a TV show. This show is definitely not for the light hearted, there's lots of sex, drugs and cringe-worthy moments.

In regards to music I am in love with Lindsey Stirling. She is a violinist, and her music is all instrumental most of the time. But she has a modern flare and it's just amazing to listen too. I recommend you check her out if you want to hear some wicked talent, she also has amazing videos to go with her music.

 

What books did You read in the Month of May?  Which was your favorite?