Blog Tour Reviews & Giveaway Confess by Colleen Hoover

by Louisa · March 9, 2015

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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…

Louisa’s Review

I will start my review with a confession of my own. I finished this book and called my one of my blog partners and said..WTF? I am not sure how I feel about that. Not sure if I connected with the characters, not sure if I loved it…oh no, no, no, no how can I NOT love a Colleen Hoover book?

I read this book so quickly the first time, well, because it’s Colleen Freaking Hoover people! I put the book down, thought about it for days and with the guidance of some great book friends and fellow bloggers, I read it again, and thank god I did. I went into the book with an open mind, slowed my roll and really, really took my time, savoring the words and the feelings, and I am happy to say, Colleen Hoover has written a book I love. That was scary people; the world would have fallen off its axis if I didn’t love this book. With that being said, I implore you to take your time, relish ever word on the page (or screen). I think I would have done this book and Colleen a disservice if I hadn’t read it again.

You know you are in for a ride with anything Colleen writes, but who would have thought she could rip your heart out and stomp on it in the freaking prologue? Well, she did, not only was I, at 3%, crying, my heart broke along with Auburn that I needed to crawl into the book and hug this poor girl. I also wanted to smack Lydia and Trey already and those feelings only magnified throughout the book.

This book is about a chance meeting of Auburn and Owen but or they just at the right place at the right time. Not just the first night they officially meet when Owen needs help at his art studio, but possibly the moment in their lives that they were needed

Owen receives anonymous confessions and paints his feelings after he reads them. If only he could share his confessions with Auburn, his life could be less complicated. But as the book continues, we find that Auburn has a few confessions of her own. (I have to say that the ARC I received, DID NOT have the pictures in the book, I have, through the grace of all the book gods, have a (signed) paperback copy on it’s way to my house so I can feast on their beauty).

There was a quote in this book that I believe everyone has felt at least once in their lives, me however, I have felt for years now, it’s what helped me connect with Owen just a bit more.

This quote, I feel, was exactly how Auburn has been feeling for years herself also. Their lives paralleled more than they even knew. Their connection was meant to be. But their relationship has so many secrets that we aren’t even sure if it will ever become a reality. The hurdles in both their lives make them being together, almost impossible. My heart stopped beating a few times while reading. I kept thinking to myself, “How is she going to be with him, she can’t be, she just can’t.” But I wanted them together like MY life depended on it.

As I had said, Auburn will capture your heart pretty early on and Owen, but I wasn’t so sure about for a bit but as I continue to read, he snuck in and I won’t ever let him leave.

And once again, Colleen Hoover has written characters that you love, Owen & Auburn. She has written characters you want to strangle, Trey & Lydia. And once again, she has written a secondary character, Emory, Auburn’s roommate who I want to be MY friend! Emory had me laughing out loud more than once in this book. She reminded me so much of the fun of Daniel & Six, Gavin & Eddie, Warren & Bridget. Colleen will now most likely have her fan’s asking for a novella about Emory, at least this fan will be. Can we see a little something between Harrison & Emory?

Colleen Hoover has done it again, she has taken my heart, ripped it open and pieced it back together.

Beautiful book that is a must read for me!

4/5 stars

An ARC was given in return for an honest review.

Jade’s Review

An honest review, cause that’s what I do…

I was given an ARC of Confess a few weeks back. I had plans that night though with my mom and sister but I had to start it right then. I couldn’t wait. And then I walked into my parents house with mascara running down my face and snot pouring out of my nose. Yeah… Colleen made me UGLY CRY in the damn PROLOGUE! Wicked woman……… And you ruined my makeup… Grrr!

I reluctantly kept my plans with my family, but raced home, changed into my sweats, chugged coffee, and finally got to really get into this book! So I read… and read……. and read…. and then it was over. And I was baffled! What’s wrong with me? Did I read too fast? Am I missing something? Why is this falling FLAT?! NO, NO… This cant be!!!! I was dumbfounded. Its true though. For me, Confess was just… flat the first time I read it.

HOWEVER! I did give it another shot, and the second time around was MUCH better.

I cried all over again because of the prologue. My heart already cracked, I met and fell in love with Auburn. and was ruined by Adam. Even as death awaits Adam, and he only graces us for a few paragraphs you are engulfed in his beautiful spirit and you just know he will linger for the rest of this story some way somehow. In just a few pages I asked WHY, repeated WTF…. and then OMG a million times. And I will never say OMG without thinking of COHO EVER again!

I met Owen and really got to appreciate the beauty of his character. The turmoil he has been forced to live with and how it’s shaped him into the beautiful artist he has become. His studio, Confess, in where Auburn and Owen “meet”. It’s where strangers go to write their own confessions and submit them. Owen Mason Gentry then reads those confessions and uses them as inspiration for his artwork. O.M.G.!!!

“Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.”

The confessions you read in this book are REAL. They are the confessions of US readers and supporters of Colleen Hoover… and I was gutted by some of them. One particular confession resonates with me however. It’s not actually mine… but it could be.

The direction Confess goes in was nothing that I had expected. The storyline is good and I think very different. The circumstances surrounding these characters are very real, which I appreciated tremendously. And because of these battles, it’s nearly impossible for Owen and Auburn to be together. But you damn sure root with every fiber of your being for them!!

You curse Lydia and Trey from beginning to end. No Im serious… you WILL ACTUALLY CURSE at them. They are despicable people and we all know people like these two in some shape or form. I wanted to punt them. Lydia and Trey have ice in their veins… They are calculated and malicious. In short, I HATE THEM and YOU WILL TOO!

I did feel like I was constantly waiting for the “OH SHIT!!!” moment though. Like when is the ball going to REALLY drop? When is my jaw going to hit the floor? Because lets face it… No one writes an OH SHIT moment like Colleen Hoover…. AND THEN IT HAPPENED…

And reading this ‘moment” was really something amazing. I will say nothing more about it other than this… It will leave have you weeping like a baby, wide-eyed, and chanting O…M…G!!!!

4 out of 5 BLUSHES

CONFESS by Colleen Hoover

Atria Books | Paperback

On-Sale: 03/10/15

Paperback ISBN: 9781476791456, $16.00

eBook ISBN: 9781476791463, $7.99

320 pages

Enter for a chance to win! Visit Atria’s Tumblr page from 3/9 – 3/22 to enter to win and a grand prize of a signed framed print of one of the images in the book plus a signed copy of CONFESS or one of the runner up prizes of one of four signed copies of CONFESS.

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 visit ColleenHoover.com.

Find Colleen online:

Website: www.ColleenHoover.com

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/ColleenHoover

Twitter: @ColleenHoover

Instagram: @ColleenHoover

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