Point of Retreat

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Lake nudges me with her elbow and shoots me a questioning glance, letting me know she’s thinking the same thing. Lake throws tantrums constantly (Will's words, not just mine), and Will somehow thinks it is acceptable to use his 10 year old brother and neighbor to do his dirty work for him.

Where the first book moved me with its remarkable inspiration, Point of Retreat touched me with its tender love story. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. I found Lake incredibly frustrating in this one, as did Will on occasion, and wanted to shake some sense into her more than once, but how it all wrapped up and tied together in the end was beautiful and breathtaking. But Point of Retreat was still a phenomenal story with heart and emotion and with characters I have come to love. Will and Lake have chosen to take on parental roles; accepting responsibilities which force them to grow up sooner than they should.I think I heard a rumor that there might be another addition to this story spotlighting a secondary character. More challenges to face, more gripping and heart wrenching situations to bound through, a few more amazing slams to add to the mix, and more tears to be shed from this read. I wanted her to be joyful in what they had, recognize how rare it was, and cling to it with both hands! Laken is in college and Will is in grad school and they still live across the street from one another. I know that this review was pretty ranty but I just can't BELIEVE how different this was from the first book.

She climbs out from under me and sits up on her knees as I roll onto my back and remain on the floor. I had feared that I would hate having the 'happy ever after' conclusion from book one ripped apart, but book two offered me even MORE closure than I could have hoped. I desperately wanted Layken to grasp some autonomy, some self-determination, and make a decision for herself beyond simply allowing her boyfriend and dead mother to pull all of the strings.Colleen Hoover entranced readers everywhere with her bestselling novel Slammed, the book that introduced Layken and Will, a young couple whose love overcame devastating hardships to emerge stronger and more resilient than before. A young girl, grieving the loss of her father, uprooted and dragged across the states by her surviving mother and little brother.

Seeing those amazing scenes in his eyes added another amazing dimension to scenes that I already adored. Instead, Will thought that it was FUNNY that his younger brother death threatened another student and didn't want to punish him AT ALL. Mom says that’s not true—she says it’s because he’s trying to ‘discover his full potential’ by examining all of his interests.She’s managed to steal my concentration captive and render me worthless until I read her story of Layken and Will in Point of Retreat from eCover to eCover. I have come to love slam poetry (well, at least the ones from this book, I don't really have any other experience with it). I think I would have been terribly irritated with Lake as she pushes him away again and again, despite all of his efforts to make this situation correct. So Kel pretended he was choking, and Caulder made a huge spectacle and got behind him and started beating on his back, pretending to give him the Heimlich maneuver. But his refusal to let this relationship die and his determination to do whatever it takes to bring Lake back to him made this a story of strength rather than simply a story of a relationship funk.

Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. This book was the perfect sequel to Slammed that left me in that contemplative zone just thinking about the story and the characters and finding myself unwilling to let go. She made the novel seem so realistic because all the characters seemed just like normal human beings. I tried to put myself in her shoes and I thought that her behaviour was justified but then she started questioning his love and I wanted to slap her.

Hoover carefully appended the concept of bullying with such a subtle sleight of hand to create an additional layer of depth to this story. With the foundation of their relationship at risk, they must decide whether they are willing to fight for a future together, or to retreat back into solitude and heartache. Colleen Hoover (Margaret Colleen Fennell) self-published Point of Retreat, the sequel to Slammed, in February 2012.