Her most credible relationship is with Sara, who comes off as a nice, if naïve, person.
She starts out all hard edges but is softened into mush by heavy applications of stereotypical fluffy touches. One senses that Colleen Hoover sometimes writes things simply because she read a book in which they occur and thought it was a cool idea, not because she has a good sense of dramatic timing.īeyah is a mixed bag. Spitfire girl meets tragic bad boy rife with secrets childhood scars ridiculous meet cute ludicrously purple sex ridiculous third act plot twist obsessive love affairs, etc. It’s CoHo you know something WTF-flavored is ahead of you. Can their love outlast Samson’s big secret? Cue jellyfish stings, dogs named Pepper Jack Cheese, and skeletons of old friends being given an unofficial burial at sea. He is mysterious, possibly untrustworthy and headed to join the Air Force at the end of the summer. There, she learns about Samson, the best friend of Sara’s boyfriend, the boy next door – and finds him staring at her across the distance from his home. Beyah has not met either of them, but heads to Texas to live with them anyway. Brian is well-off and now married to Alana, who has a twenty-year-old daughter named Sara. Although he tried to reach out, Beyah rebuffed and avoided him, allowing him to fade out of her life for reasons that never really make sense, and hse doesn’t tell him about Janean’s death, for reasons that make even less sense. Brian left Beyah’s mom when Beyah was two and Brian became a weekend dad.
With a full ride volleyball scholarship to Penn State in her back pocket, she’s about to get out of dodge for college, but that’s not for another couple of months, and her temporary homelessness means she’ll have to rely on her father, Brian, for a home until she can take off to college. Naturally, the portrait of Mother Teresa is one of the few things she takes with her when she leaves.īeyah has vowed she won’t go out the same way as Janean. Unfortunately, she’s only nineteen, which means she’s too young to rent another one when she’s thrown out due to rent arrears. Beyah has been brought up in abject poverty and has gone without food many a night. “The bitch was a fraud” – the mother of Our Heroine on Mother Teresa.īeyah’s initial reaction is to vomit even though Janean, who, as an alcoholic and drug addict, spent days doing all those classic clichéd Drunk Mom things characters do in books, like neglecting her daughter and being hateful. In the opening scene of Heart Bones – one of Colleen Hoover’s earlier and remarkably messy novels – recent high school graduate, the amazingly-named Beyah Grim, realizes that her mother Janean has died of a drug overdose while sitting in the living room of their Kentucky trailer while staring at a hated portrait of Mother Teresa.
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