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Slammed
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❄️ Propertea Of Frostea ❄️ Bitter SnoBerry ❄
Iron heart

I hold my hands to my heart
Trying to feel the beat
I turn page by page and initially it grows so sweet
So sickly sweet

I'd jam it, not slam it

Alas, there was no osmosis This heart armoured again
Where's the key
to this compassionate lock
I feared i was going soft
And found myself safely indifferent
Healed
Vexed with this writing style
Dressed up with elements
Like Forbidden Love
Oh dear, ain't here no poison apple nor ivy
Nor a lust between a vampire
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Jennifer C.
Net Galley provided me with this book for a review.

This book absolutely floored me. I still feel a bit stunned. What I expected was a cute first novel from a new writer. From reading the descriptions of the book I expected some angsty teen drama about a girl who loves a boy, but can't be with said boy. I could not have been farther from the truth.

Without giving too much away, reviewing this book will be very difficult. It is about a girl and a boy who have had a rough life up to this point and
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Grace  =^_^=
Jan 29, 2016 rated it it was ok
Slammed was Hoover's first novel and based on how much I loved two of her later novels Ugly Love and Confess, her storytelling ability has improved tremendously - and so quickly. With Ugly Love and Confess, Hoover's rich descriptions, realistic dialogue, and just plain good writing evoked my emotions; I was thoroughly convinced and absorbed in her characters' chemistry and sense of undeniable connection with each other. But the story of Layken and Will wasn't convincing to me because there was m ...more
Maira
Dec 18, 2012 rated it liked it
i personally don't know what to write about this book. the story was good but the writing style of the writer destroyed it hence i can not enjoy it. it was plane and surfaced with no emotions feelings and depth in it the lead characters were a little too much straight forward for my taste.

the description and the setting of the book was also lost upon me.
in the end i would simply conclude that it was just a read for me it could have been better but was not.
the ending and the middle part was be
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Kme_17
Oct 09, 2012 rated it really liked it
Antonia
Dec 23, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shantyl
Dec 26, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: na-emotional
Elena Love
Feb 01, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: need-to-read
Tracy
Feb 16, 2013 marked it as to-read
Mary
Apr 10, 2013 marked it as to-read
Becky
Apr 28, 2013 marked it as to-read
Deppie
Jul 11, 2013 marked it as to-read
Nila
Oct 08, 2013 marked it as to-read
Carmen Blankenship
Dec 05, 2013 marked it as to-read
Naomi Louise
Apr 25, 2014 rated it really liked it
Mandy
Sep 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Nikki...♬✰❤
Oct 18, 2014 marked it as to-read
Victoria
Oct 26, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: finished-series
Sindhuri
Feb 12, 2015 marked it as to-read
Roxy
Feb 13, 2015 rated it really liked it
Ali
May 07, 2015 rated it did not like it
Vicki
Aug 22, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: priority
Vandhana
Apr 25, 2016 marked it as to-read
Kristal Fleming
Oct 09, 2016 marked it as to-read
Melanie
Jan 29, 2017 marked it as to-read-series  ·  review of another edition
Danielle
Feb 13, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Nina
Sep 09, 2017 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: contemporary, baaah, dnf
Tracy
Nov 27, 2021 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
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