Release date: August 19th, 2020
Series: / standalone
Pages: 338
Genre: New Adult
Series: / standalone
Pages: 338
Genre: New Adult
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself.
With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan.
Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface.
She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.
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“What fills the holes in a soul?”Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a few seconds. “Pieces of someone else’s soul.”
This book was so wholesome and heartbreakingly beautiful, I have a feeling it's going to stay with me for a long time. This one is heavy, but I haven't expected anything less from one of my favourite authors.
Beyah comes to live with her father after the tragic death of her mother. Upon coming there, she quickly sees her father lives quite a different life than what she's used to, considering she and her mom were so poor, Beyah was struggling a lot. She also gets a new stepmother and a stepsister that both love her as soon as she arrives.
Beyah is a closed book. She doesn't trust easily and the lies come easily with her. When she meets Samson, everything changes.
Both of them have very tragic pasts, both of their lives are similar, even though it doesn't seem like that on the surface. When Beyah and Samson start hanging out more, they learn that they understand each other a lot since they've experienced some tough times in their lives.
Samson, though, is the most secretive while Beyah opens up to him. Since they both have plans about leaving when the summer ends, going on different paths, they decide to hang out and live those two months out to the maximum.
Samson becomes the only person who she can trust and rely on - besides her stepsister - and both of them start having feelings for each other.
Their love story is intense. First real love and first heartbreak. When Beyah starts to believe that she finally found something and someone good and that her life is finally turning for the better, things change in the middle of the night.
I'm not giving anything away because I'd spoil the book way too much, I just have to say that towards the end, I was on the verge of my seat, literally eating the pages.
But I loved the end. I love how Beyah refused to give up on Samson and kept believing in him, even though everyone was against him and against them.
This book was so sweet, yet so heartbreaking at parts, which only made it that much more memorable.
❝Hearts don't have bones. They can't actually break.❞
I beg to differ because this book, apparently, managed to break my heart bone.
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