Review: This Girl by Colleen Hoover

This Girl
Colleen Hoover
Series: Slammed #3
Publication date: April 30th 2013 by Atria Books
Rating: ★★★★★

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Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from his point of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.

I was really nervous about reading this, to be honest, because from the blurb it just sounded like I was going to get the same story as Slammed, only told differently. I didn't want the repetition of it, reading about the same situations all over again when I already knew how things were going to go. And that's where Colleen's brilliancy came to play and proved me so butterflying wrong.

This Girl gives us Will and Lake reminiscing about their relationship right from where Point of Retreat left off, and it's written in a way that makes it all so much more than a simple retelling of the books. We get new information and little snippets of things we didn't know were going on during the story, all the while reading about Lake's reactions to all of it and about Will's perspective of situations and their relationship.

And just like the two previous books, this one will make you feel all the things.

Right from the beginning, it just gives you this sense of nostalgia as you read about Will and Lake's journey, with the added bonus of knowing things will be okay, and then with the best epilogue and slam poetry piece you've ever dreamed of.

It was such a sweet and amazing read that it left me a little bit heart broken at the end, because it meant leaving these incredible characters behind. Colleen Hoover owns every little tiny piece of my soul, and this book just shows me how much she deserves it.