SUMMARY AND SPOILER-FREE REVIEW:
Layken has to move from her hometown with her
mother and younger brother after her father’s death. Things are not easy for
her. New school, new house, new life.
Right after she gets to her new house, she
meets her neighbor, Will, the boy she eventually falls in love with. But things
can’t be as easy as they seem to be.
After a first date, Lake and Will grow a
strong connection that soon will be tested and forced to be broken.
Slammed is
a book I would recommend to those who enjoy a great YA contemporary read,
specially those who like a bit of tragedy.
In this
novel you get to know the characters so well that it’s surreal how real the
story feels and how much it makes you feel.
This book contains a few surprises and incredible slam
poetry that will leave you breathless. MY THOUGHTS (SPOILERS):
Slammed is an incredibly beautiful and heartbreaking tragic love story that got me from page one.
I enjoyed Layken very much. She is a
strong girl and I felt so much for her that when her world was crashing, I felt
mine crashing too.
Will is an amazing character and I loved seeing how he dealt with the situation surrounding him.
Kel and Caulder stole my heart. I usually
dislike children’s appearances in books because they’re too often useless, just
to add a cute factor to the book. But these two characters... I loved their
relationships with their siblings and I enjoyed so much their friendship.
Eddie was a bit of a struggle to me,
because the way she and Lake met was pretty unbelievable since it happened out
of nowhere. It was hard for me to believe their friendship, though I ended up
loving her.
The greatest thing about this novel is
that you get to know the characters’ feelings through amazing slam poetry.
I think I will always remember page 51,
where Will exposes his life through an emotional slam poem, talking about his
parents’ death. It was the first thing that made me cry in the novel.
I liked so much when Eddie told her pink
balloon story, and I really enjoyed reading about her life, when she tells Lake
where she comes from.
Poetry is, without a doubt, the most
important and amazing factor of the book. I loved the way Lake and Will
said they loved each other at the end of the book. I think it
was very unique.
Another thing I want to point out is how
much I loved the teacher-student thing going on. I must say, I knew he was
going to be her poetry teacher but I didn’t expect things to turn out that way.
I enjoyed so much how well I could tell the difference between Lake and Will,
and Layken and Mr. Cooper. I think Collen Hoover handled very well the
situation, because you could tell by their actions if they were being their
honest an true self or the one they had to pretend to be, but still remain the
same character.
Layken’s mom is a very important
character in the story, and though I got into the book knowing something
cancer-related was going to happen, it all hit me pretty hard, specially Kel’s
reaction and the way he handled the situation.
I felt so much while I was reading this
book, that the fact that things happened too fast at the beginning of the book
did not lower my rating.
MY RATING:
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