At first, I regretted my decision of buying her book. I am a non-fiction reader, after all.
I even put the book away after reading the first three chapters. The usual romance kinda thing. Not my kind.
And then, over the pages, the book turned out to be everything you hadn’t expected.
So much so that by the end of the book, I finally decided to write my own book—something I had been putting off for months.
“Should I even tell my story,” I would often wonder, “there are people who have been through worse than I have been. My life is rather a culmination of so much good things happening.”
However, once I put that book away, I realised how much a story told with brutal honesty has the power to pierce through you in the right ways.
And how in a world of Generative AI, humans are looking so much for authenticity and the 45435326 shades of grey we all are, instead of being only white or black.
And why it is so important to lay your soul wide open. So others know too, that they are not alone in what they are going through.
I am going to be needing Colleen Hoover’s honesty throughout the pages of my book.
However, here is me leaving you with something from the book that touched me at the core:
It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern. Sometimes it is easier to just keep running in the same familiar circles, rather than facing the fear of jumping and possibly not landing on your feet.