Title: Maybe Someday (Maybe #1)
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary.
Publication Date: March 18th 2014
Publisher: Atria Books
Format: Paperback
Pages: 367
Challenges: Around the World, #ProjectTBR
Rating: 5/5
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance.
At twenty-two years old, Sydney has a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter's cheating on her--and she is left trying to decide what to do next.
Sydney becomes captivated by Ridge, her mysterious neighbor. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. And there's something about Sydney that Ridge can't ignore, either. When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one...
Original music created for Maybe Someday by musician Griffin Peterson can be accessed through the website listed in the ebook and paperback.
At twenty-two years old, Sydney has a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter's cheating on her--and she is left trying to decide what to do next.
Sydney becomes captivated by Ridge, her mysterious neighbor. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. And there's something about Sydney that Ridge can't ignore, either. When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one...
Original music created for Maybe Someday by musician Griffin Peterson can be accessed through the website listed in the ebook and paperback.
So people I talked to about this book…Remember how I was all
like ‘I don’t know if I’m going to like New Adult, you know’? HA. HAHA. Guys. I
can’t even.
For those of you who I didn’t talk about this book with,
well, I was a little apprehensive to start it. I feel comfortable in my little
YA-sometimes-classics-sphere so branching into a new genre was terrifying for
me. But oh my god. Just oh my god.
I don’t know if this review is going to make sense at all so
if it doesn’t, I’m really, really sorry but I feel like it’ll speak volumes for
this book.
It started off kind of strangely and for the first, maybe,
40 pages or so I wasn’t sure about this. I felt like I’d read the story before
– girl breaks up with boyfriend, girl is heartbroken, girl meets new boys, the
usual. Then all of a sudden out of nowhere, I was completely invested in the
story. I’m sorry, what do you mean this book was 367 pages? I’m pretty sure it
was only like 50.
Let’s talk about our main character Sydney. At first, I
didn’t like her – she was boring and cliché and I just couldn’t have cared
less. By the end? I loved her. I don’t know about anyone else, but I thought
she was just a really great character. She wasn’t judgmental or whiney or
anything else that would make her just like all those others. She was awesome,
she had a passion other than boys, she could be witty and sarcastic.
I think my favourite thing was the relationship between her
and Ridge, and I don’t mean the feels (although, there were a lot of those.) I
liked how the characters grew because of one another and I liked that you could
see that in the way they acted. I loved the banter between the two of them but
also the deep trust and understanding. They’re basically the definition of my
idea of love. No other characters have ever personified that in any book I’ve
ever read.
Ridge was perfect. Well, not perfect but seriously amazing.
I wish I could talk about why I think he was so brilliant but unfortunately
that’s a spoiler. I don’t know if I’ve seen anyone else gush about Ridge, but
wow. He’s honestly become one of my new favourite book boyfriends. I mean, he’s
up there with James Mycroft and Sirius Black and I’m sure you all know how I
feel about those two. Could he maybe move Warner out of the top three? Welllll,
don’t tell anyone (especially not Chami) but maybe…someday. I’m sorry, I
couldn’t resist!
Before I move onto the biggest part of the book and this
review, I just want to quickly talk about Colleen Hoover’s writing. Usually
when it comes to contemporaries, I find you get a really mix – you get the good
writing and then the OMG-what-have-you-done-to-my-heart? kind of writing. This
was definitely the second. I think the reason this story is so beautiful is
because the writing is absolutely gorgeous, it’s honest and it’s a little bit
heartbreaking but it’s funny too. It’s just a whole lot of feels.
Now let’s move onto the big thing. The music element to the
book. I’m going to start of by saying that I love music, really I do but the
idea of writing completely baffles me. I know a bit of guitar and piano but I’m
definitely more of a listener rather than a maker. It’s always interested me
though so the fact that this book is about musicians was very exciting when I
started reading. Oh but wait, it got better! First page, before the book even
starts, there’s a little note from Colleen Hoover saying that you can actually
find the soundtrack on her website. That’s cool right? *insert me buying the album off iTunes and then sobbing at the beauty* Anyway,
I love the fact that we don’t only get to see the lyrics within the book, but
we also get the chance to listen to the songs but even more than that, we see
them being written. Please excuse me while I fangirl over that. If you’re even
a little bit interested in music then you absolutely have to read this.
(Especially you Ebony, if you’re reading this.)
Random little extra
note here, I actually had to put this down with 20 or so pages left because my
heart couldn’t take it. Obviously, I had to pick it back up 30 seconds later
because RIDGE.
Okay, so to
summarise – Maybe Someday is now being referred to as the book of ‘oh my god,
no, stop, I just can’t, nope, MY HEART!!!’
Yes, I’m warning you
now. And yes, we have a massive graphic budget here on A Book So Fathomless.
