Reads & Reviews: May 2022
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Now that June has begun, I’ve been eagerly awaiting to share the books I read the month of May. These books have grown my love for reading immensely. With the busyness of college life, I hadn’t ever had time to pick up a book, but now I’m back in the reading grind and hope to manage and find a way to fit in time when the school year picks up again. But for now, May lead me to read 3 books. 3, beautifully written and important books.
Ugly Love: Colleen Hoover
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Wow. This book unlocked feelings and emotions in an overwhelming but comforting and inspiring way. I was hooked from just the first few pages, and continued to be until the last. Not only did this book reinforce the idea that love at first sight is such a real thing, but the complexities that past relationships and trauma can bring to one’s that are blossoming. Feelings are so real and however deep you may want to bury them, they’re there for a reason and will always find a way to come up- whether that’s for the best or worst. I really felt myself in both Miles’s and Tate’s shoes, while I went back in forth between rooting and despising their firey romance. This book will not disappoint you and will leave you realizing that your past can only impact your future so much, but it’s how you choose to take it on and let go of the strings it’s attatched to you.
2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Going to be completely honest, I wasn’t sure where the direction of the book would go in the first 100 pages. I was still very captured by the plot, but I was worried it’d just be snippets of each husband and how that effected Evelyn, but as the book continues I was proved very wrong. This book balances the complexities of Evelyn’s love life, Monique’s love life and their intertwined relationship. Not only does this book offer insight to the devastating way love and marriage can become messy and tumultuous in the public eye, but the way in history women have been paid to keep quiet about the pain they went through aswell. The end left me in shambles and made me want to see how Monique actually wrote the book.
3. It Ends with Us: Colleen Hoover
Not only is this book so tenderly and beautifully written, but also so important at conveying a story so many survivors are scared to tell. It highlights the reality of being put in a toxic and unhealthy situation, it’s not easy to walk away and face your own demons, let alone label the demon right in front of you. I think both men and women should read this captivating and emotional story, because not only was it such an amazing read, but also so educating. Once again, Hoover knows how to captivate and completely engross me just from the first couple of pages. This novel is both heartbreaking and inspiring and leaves me still thinking and pondering about it every day since I’ve finished it. Truly, the cycle is not everlasting and can be ended by you and our generation as a whole. If I had to recommend one book to someone for the rest of my life, I’d say this one in a heartbeat.
Tiktok was right about all 3. SO. GOOD.
-H <3