Bria Lou Reviews

  After an accident reveals deeply buried secrets, Morgan (Allison Williams) and her daughter Clara (McKenna Grace) reconnect as they rediscover life and love. I’m firmly in the middle of the Coleen Hoover discourse – I’m not a fan, but I haven’t read enough of her work to hate her writing either, so when this film came out, I was neutral about it. Unfortunately, this one wasn’t good. However, the actors were great! They all played their characters really well. The story is so cheesy and insane, in true Coleen Hoover fashion. But at least it’s fun! Everything about the way the story is told is heavy-handed. It doesn’t give you a chance to figure things out and instead just hits you over the head with themes again and again. While the couples all had believable chemistry, their relationships were underdeveloped and moved way too fast. The audience can’t connect with them, root for them or ‘ship’ them because they’re all together before we even have time to get used to the idea of th...

After falling for neurosurgeon Ryle at the same time her first love, Atlas, comes back into her life, Lily finds herself in a relationship that mimics her childhood trauma. Most of the descriptions of this book don't mention anything about the character's trauma but I wanted to include it because otherwise, the book seems like an open-and-shut love story. But there's a lot more to it. I've owned this book for a while, but I only felt the urge to pick it up after seeing the trailer for the film adaptation, which has just come out. I really wanted to read it before seeing the film so I bumped it to the top of my list. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I had heard a lot of bad things about Colleen Hoover books, and as this was the first of hers I'd read, I went into it sceptically. And while the book wasn't amazing, it was better than I expected it to be. I didn't immediately connect to any of the characters, particularly because the dialogue was cringey...