Blurb: At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.
For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.
To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.
Review: What a way to kick off my audiobook reading for 2024. Colleen Hoover does it again. This novel pacts so many punches including so many sins. Young love, family secrets, family tragedy, death, addiction, assault just to name a few.
At the beginning of this story we meet Auburn and Adam. As teens their love is looked down on but seeing as Adam is dying they want to spend every second they have together understandably. Fast forward to Auburn now doing all she can to make ends meet, now I don't want to spoil any of the reveals but there is so much to Auburn and her extremely heart wrenching story. I felt for her from the off and then when she meets Owen a spark in her is reignited. There's a fire that's she's been missing since Adam passed away.
There are so many secrets throughout this novel that will keep you listening in my case or turning the pages in a physical sense. It's heartfelt it's real and so incredibly raw, just the lengths we go to for those that we love.
Like most Colleen Hoover novels there's an element of sexiness but that's not the majority or what this novel is about although it will keep you on your toes. I often see so many negative connotations to this author, yet I almost always love every single novel. Her female characters are real, raw including being flawed from time to time. Auburn has had to grow up fast yet there is an element of naïveté in that. In seeing her realise this that's when her strength changes and her resolve becomes to get who and what she wants. That's a powerful and empowering woman right there. Although in saying that there was an aspect where I thought she was going to turn into a doormat but I'm so glad that spark kicked in.
Confess being a complete link to so many aspects made me smile. Owen's studio of work based on strangers real and raw confessions was absolute genius.
As the novel ends so much comes together, I was left smiling yet also wondering if we'll ever see any of these characters again.
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