Confess by Colleen Hoover

Confess by Colleen Hoover

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I had seen this book in the list of best books of the year by goodreads. I think it was among adult romance section. That's the genre I don't like to read much. Especially, I think of 50 Shades of Grey kind of books when I see adult romance label. I think such romance is more fun when you do it than when you read someone else doing and sweat from inside.
The second encounter with this book was when I saw in my feed that a girl had given one star to Lang Leav. Lang Leav was the writer I read on a train to my work. She was precise and good with the words. I felt like I could quote each line of poetry she did as they were all beautiful.(may be I am a bit exaggerating but I am sure I enjoyed her poems and even thanked the guy who suggested me to read her). So, what I thought was, if someone thinks Lang Leav is worth one star she should have some different taste or may be better taste than mine. Then I went in to see the books she had read and to see the book she has admired. Confess was one of them. She had given it a 5 star. I started the book with an expectation that it would be 5 times more fun to read than Lang Leav. (My inclination to mathematics is sometimes a bit weird)May be that was a bit high expectation and it reflects now in the stars I give. But, if I have to star this book based on the star she gave to Lang Leav, I would not give it any stars.
One thing I have to admit, I started this book when I was supposed to sleep. I was supposed to take class at 8:30 the next morning and the other at 10:00. Instead, I thought of looking inside this book and seeing what's 5 times more beautiful than Lang Leav looks like. It certainly was a beautiful writing. The way Owen and Auburn unfold their stories one after another and the way they keep revealing stories of the characters involved were beautifully done. I loved the confession part and the way it was associated with the art work. Trey, Adam and Owen are the male character which a female writer would like to idealize (either they are assholes or they are like prince charming-not in between). Auburn's insecurities are well expressed. I can related the way she tries to protect her secrets to people I have known and met. The twists in the stories surprised me a lot. The way writer calculated the plot should be admired. It all makes sense if you believe in fate and destiny. It also makes sense when you remind yourself that you are reading a novel and not a biography. But the problem is we seek fantasy in reality and then reality in fantasy. That's what messes up everything.

My eyelid grew heavier once I reached more than a-half of the book. It was almost 4 in the morning I guess. I was trying to convince myself that I can finish the book till 6:30 and somehow can just take an hours nap and take my class and sleep later on. But it was becoming difficult and I was missing some of the parts read. I decided to stop and continue the next day.

When I heard my alarm it was 8:45. I missed my first class. The second was to start in 10 so I could again sleep for an hour. Besides, the sleeplessness didn't allow me to open my eyes at all. The second time I saw my mobile it was 11. I had missed my second class. I remember saying my girlfriend that I can't meet her as I want to prepare for exam. I said her that the classes this week are the crucial ones and important for exam. I actually didn't want to miss the classes. Realizing it all made me feel more worse. I was reading a fantasy and skipping the classes I wanted to take avoiding the romance I could lived in reality. At around 11 I continued to finish what I started.
I am not a speed reader. If I read, I loose my concentration every now and then. Recently Microsoft edge has provided a feature where you can play the book and your computer reads the book for you. It's faster to read that way. Besides, you can choose the pace you want the book to be read. It would have taken me a week or a month to read this book in a normal way but it took may be 7 hours to read with the help of computer. I had chosen girl's voice and then the highest pace available. I sometime felt that this might have spoiled some fun you get when you read the book in a normal way. However, I think that in future people would simply listen to books with some background music of their choice rather than reading page to page. They will have more choices and to enjoy most of them they will have to be fast or else they will miss many readable books.

She has mentioned that she rates it 5 when a book makes her cry uncontrollably. She rates 1 if she is indifferent. I didn't understand how can a person be indifferent to Lang Leav and cry uncontrollably while reading Colleen Hoover ? I rate book 5 when I am proud that I read the book and when I can boast about reading that book. I must have enjoyed the book to the fullest for a book to get 5-stars. It must have been something new to the books I have read so far. I rate 1 when I think that the book was waste of time. Reading this book was costly to me in so many was. I know I certainly can't boast to my girlfriend that I choose to miss the class and read this book when I could actually see her at the same time.
I gave it two star int he beginning and then 3 star. I thought it might be a bit more and then again changed it to 2. I know I am biased. I want to stay biased. I think anyone who reads my review would know the reason. Don't go for reviews without seeing the explanation. They might be misleading. Just they way they mislead me.

P.S. This book is a good read if you have no stories attached to it like I had.






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