“You can fill your life with nice things, but nice things don’t fill the holes in your soul.” “What fills the holes in the soul?” Samson’s eyes scroll over my face for a few seconds. More a glance with a stranger and shared experience. I love that their first meeting wasn’t vocal, it wasn’t even really a meeting. The utter turmoil happening inside Beyah’s world, clashing with a dark stranger on a boat photographing her, all while she’s trying to deal with the newfound living situation with her estranged father. I loved the subtle first introduction we get between Beyah and Samson. You completely slip into the plot, into Beyah’s mind and the rush of her now-changing life. Something beautiful about this book is how effortless it is to read. You focus heavily on the darkness in people in hopes of masking the true shade of your own darkness.” “I think when you’re the worst of people, finding the worst in others becomes a survival tactic of sorts. Theirs is a complex introduction, as it’s all uneven flooring, and unsteady assumptions. The story picks up as soon Beyah’s feet hit Texan soil and her eyes meet Samsons’. They first meet after tragedy drives Beyah to her fathers home in Texas, where she meets her new step mum and step sister. Beyah comes from a life of poverty with an addicted mother in their trailer, and Samson is from a wealthy family with many homes. It’s like a club you don’t want a membership to.”īeyah and Samson are complete opposites within life.

What Beyah doesn’t realize is that a rip current is coming, and it’s about to drag her heart out to sea.“Damaged people recognise other damaged people. 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.

But one thing they do have in common is that they’re both drawn to sad things. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim’s parents ever gave her.

Heart bones by colleen hoover