Review: Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover

Day Four of our review fest is a book I’m going to be raving about for a long time.  Colleen Hoover has easily become one of my favorite authors.  Her stories are wonderfully written and they have such deep emotion entwined you can’t read one of her books without tearing up at least once.  But, for Maybe Someday it is a complete experience.  I think I will dub it the “Colleen Hoover Experience”.  She manages to blend music and her story so seamlessly its as if you can hear the songs being written.  Though the best thing with this particular book is this can be a complete experience.  There is a soundtrack with all of the songs from the book.  Yes, I am a total fangirl and have the soundtrack but it was phenomenal listening to the song that was just mentioned in the book.  Ok, enough of my gushing.  You can read the rest of my review after the book blurb.  Believe me you won’t want to miss this one.  Oh and don’t forget about my giveaway.

Book Blurb:

At twenty-two years old, aspiring musician Sydney Blake has a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her good friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter cheating on her with Tori—and she is left trying to decide what to do next.

Sydney becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor, Ridge Lawson. She can’t take her eyes off him or stop listening to the daily guitar playing he does out on his balcony. She can feel the harmony and vibrations in his music. And there’s something about Sydney that Ridge can’t ignore, either: He seems to have finally found his muse. When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one…

Review:

When we first meet Sydney she has just punched both her ex-best friend and ex-boyfriend.  She is standing in the rain waiting for a cab plotting ways on how to now hurt Ridge.  Ridge is/was Sydney’s neighbor across their courtyard who have inadvertently started writing music together.  Ridge sends down his roommate to pretty forcibly bring Sydney up to their apartment.  When the now soaked Sydney finally meets Ridge in person she finds her self  attracted to him even though she is still hurting over the horrendous betrayal of her best friend and boyfriend.

Ridge sees that Sydney is now in need of a home and he has an extra room.  He offers Sydney the extra room in exchange for helping him write songs for his band.  Sydney reluctantly agrees.  As Sydney and Ridge get closer they fight the attraction they have toward each other.  Ridge is loyal to a fault to his girlfriend and will not betray her no matter what, but his heart is pulling him toward Sydney and he knows that he will never leave his girlfriend for anything.  Sydney’s attraction to Ridge is growing exponentially but she too will not do what was done to her.  When things finally come to a boiling point choices must be made and consequences paid.  Can the mind overrule the heart or will the heart win the war on love?

I LOVED this book.  I mean to the point of when I was done I wanted to re-read it so that I could experience it all over again.  Maybe Someday really has a wonderfully poignant story that has so many levels you don’t even feel like your done when the story is done.  You face the challenges that the characters face and you become emotionally ensconced in the story.  I think most people have felt the love that has gotten away or the choice you wish you could do over.  This book does such a wonderful job taking those emotions and some how make you relive them.

Ridge and Sydney are such well-developed and evolved characters.  They grow through the story even when you think they won’t.  The story though fairly simplistic is so real.  It illustrates the real challenges in life and in relationships.  This really is a story about a boy, a girl and the beautiful music they make.  It seems that it can be innocent but when the heart is involved nothing is completely ruled out.  I think the torment they both go through fighting what could easily have been a cheating situation brings a level of morality that you don’t necessarily see in books now a days.

Overall, this is the epitome of a “Colleen Hoover Experience”.  Her love of music and writing is shown through out this story.  I was so excited for this book and I was not disappointed at all.  I couldn’t put it down.  I know it may sound cliché but I laughed and I cried among all of the other emotions Colleen Hoover wrung out of me.  I have to say this is one of her best books.  I will always have a place in my heart for Hopeless (my fave) but this has definitely wormed its way in and with the soundtrack has given the reader a chance at a unique intimacy with a book.  It makes me wish that every book that writes songs or has music in it came with a soundtrack.  But, because it doesn’t that makes it all the more rare.  Believe me when I say go out and get this book and the soundtrack.  You will never experience anything like it.