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A review by nikkihrose
Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover
5.0
When everything you know as normal comes crashing down around you in a matter of moments, it's difficult to not fall apart. At least, it is for protagonist Sydney when she finds out that her boyfriend of two years has been sleeping with her best friend and roommate. But not only has she lost her boyfriend and best friend, she also has to move out at the drop of a hat, and she has nowhere to go.
That is until the kind musical stranger she has been watching from her balcony and across the courtyard offers her a room in his apartment.
With nowhere else to turn, Sydney moves in with Ridge and his two other roommates, Warren and Bridgette. But not only is Sydney drawn to Ridge's music, she also can't stop herself from being drawn to him. What she doesn't realize is that he feels the same way.
But there are complications, as there are in any YA romance novel. Ridge has a girlfriend. Of five years. Whom he will never leave.
Despite all of this, Sydney and Ridge are thrown together time after time as they realize they have a powerful ability to write music together. But Ridge is Deaf, and his writing process becomes far more intimate than that for those who can hear: he needs to be able to feel the music. Their growing attracting and connection becomes impossible to ignore, yet they both keep fighting against it in order to honor and respect Maggie, Ridge's girlfriend, as much as they possibly can.
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I'll be honest in that this book started off slow, and compared to other books by Colleen Hoover, I worried I wouldn't like it as much. But once we got further into the plot, I couldn't put it down. I was hooked on the romance - the fight against the romance, the more-than-attraction draw that the characters had for each other, the Deaf plot line, the musical aspirations and connections … it had it all. Hoover intertwined all of these components and made readers feel everything her characters did. It wasn't about being able to hear the lyrics of the songs she came up with in the book, because even some of her characters couldn't hear them. It was about feeling them. It was about experiencing them. It was about realizing that they were the lyrics that represented how they felt and experienced life.
Hoover always has some great lines that I end up marking down, but this was one I couldn't help but include for all of you:
"There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with twenty-six letters. You would think there were only so many ways those letters could make you feel when you mixed up and shoved together to make words.
"However, there are infinite ways those twenty-six letters can make a person feel, and this song is living proof. I'll never understand how a few simple words strung together can change a person, but this song, these words, are completely changing me. I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now."
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A beautiful novel about love, pain, suffering, and feeling, this is a must-read for just about everyone. Additionally, this book is part of a mini-series with a sequel and novella that follow, which I cannot wait to read.
That is until the kind musical stranger she has been watching from her balcony and across the courtyard offers her a room in his apartment.
With nowhere else to turn, Sydney moves in with Ridge and his two other roommates, Warren and Bridgette. But not only is Sydney drawn to Ridge's music, she also can't stop herself from being drawn to him. What she doesn't realize is that he feels the same way.
But there are complications, as there are in any YA romance novel. Ridge has a girlfriend. Of five years. Whom he will never leave.
Despite all of this, Sydney and Ridge are thrown together time after time as they realize they have a powerful ability to write music together. But Ridge is Deaf, and his writing process becomes far more intimate than that for those who can hear: he needs to be able to feel the music. Their growing attracting and connection becomes impossible to ignore, yet they both keep fighting against it in order to honor and respect Maggie, Ridge's girlfriend, as much as they possibly can.
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I'll be honest in that this book started off slow, and compared to other books by Colleen Hoover, I worried I wouldn't like it as much. But once we got further into the plot, I couldn't put it down. I was hooked on the romance - the fight against the romance, the more-than-attraction draw that the characters had for each other, the Deaf plot line, the musical aspirations and connections … it had it all. Hoover intertwined all of these components and made readers feel everything her characters did. It wasn't about being able to hear the lyrics of the songs she came up with in the book, because even some of her characters couldn't hear them. It was about feeling them. It was about experiencing them. It was about realizing that they were the lyrics that represented how they felt and experienced life.
Hoover always has some great lines that I end up marking down, but this was one I couldn't help but include for all of you:
"There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with twenty-six letters. You would think there were only so many ways those letters could make you feel when you mixed up and shoved together to make words.
"However, there are infinite ways those twenty-six letters can make a person feel, and this song is living proof. I'll never understand how a few simple words strung together can change a person, but this song, these words, are completely changing me. I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now."
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A beautiful novel about love, pain, suffering, and feeling, this is a must-read for just about everyone. Additionally, this book is part of a mini-series with a sequel and novella that follow, which I cannot wait to read.