Layla

by Colleen Hoover

I placed two layers of duct tape over Layla’s mouth before I came downstairs,

this could be the most attention grabbing opening line to a book i've ever read

As if she knows I’m thinking about her, the noise picks up again. The wooden headboard pounds against the wall upstairs, creating an eerie echo in this huge empty house.

its only the second page, but here's my thoughts/predictions (also using the tiny bits of information my friends have hinted at). at first i thought, she's a ghost. he killed her upstairs and now she's haunting the house. but then my other prediction was, he didn't kill her, but somehow his actions inadvertently lead to her death (such as not picking up the phone when she needed his help) and now he feels guilty and feeling like he is actually killing her. safe to say i am intriged.

She jerks her head wildly, and her unruly black curls sling back to front like she’s jamming out to a heavy metal song.

oh so this is gonna be a manic pixie dream girl kind of thing, okay.

I’m embarrassed I’m even standing up here.

i want to punch this guy in the face already. its giving male version of a pick me girl.

And since parents don’t count, this girl is literally the only person on my mind right now. “I guess you,” I say.

i'm going to vomit

I sit down on the bed and pull the book up in my Kindle app.

now i know why the book was free on kindle

I binge-watched every season of Seinfeld

we got ourselves a red flag, folks

A nightmare. Everything stops. It just stops. It just . . .

shit just got interesting

I ate a strand of Layla’s hair this morning.

what the fuck

We need the privacy. A break from the outside world. I just want to go back to how it all was in the beginning.

dude, you only had 5k followers. you're not harry styles.

She lifts the shade and gazes out the window at the clouds,

um, i'm sorry but the window is meant to be open during take off anx landing. has ms hoover never been on a flight?