Point of Retreat --- Butterflies and Stars

Point of Retreat

Colleen Hoover

5 Stars

Butterflies, 

poetry, 

irreplaceable friend (and neighbors), 

retreat,

love, 

suck-and-sweets, 

the past,

doubts, 

cars, 

buttons, 

dryers, 

ugly shirts,

stars, 

snow, 

cheeseburgers, 

guitars, 

strangers, 

broken glass… 

and a ballsy road less traveled (thank you Frost *wink*).

“And all around my memories, you dance...”

-The Avett Brother

“Our war of limbs

And lips

And hands…”

-Will

I get all giddy when I review a book that I am head over heels for… And then, when I sit down attempting to write and get every ounce of my love onto my small blog in a big world of blogs… I am at a loss.

Before reading Point of Retreat you obviously have to read Slammed. So don’t be stupid and just read this jumble of my thoughts if in fact you have not read Slammed --- you will screw everything up.

Will and Lake have been through shit --- no joke… 

They haven’t just lost one parent, they have lost two…

And in case you don’t know, and I pray you never do, 

losing a parent is nothing short of a glimpse of hell…

Yet, in some weird twist of life, they ended up raising their baby brothers, together.

The sheer power of their love makes me weak--- 

Point of Retreat is written from Will’s POV. Which is so very wonderful…

He is a pure romantic… and poet… and even though in Slammed he was a bit uptight, it’s apparent in POR he has let himself go.

This crazy family has so much love --- and Julia, Lake’s mom --- who passed away of cancer, has an extremely strong presence in this novel… So beautifully displayed in a vase of paper stars.

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart to realize how 

much they need to fall back together”

 –Author Unknown

When Will’s ex-girlfriend makes an unexpected entrance into their world --- Lake begins to doubt the love that Will professes to her daily. She breaks the poor man’s heart and of course is the flaming definition of irrational --- *sighs* Yet, I get it… everything about them seems circumstantial… And the last thing any person wants to do is commit to a fleeting love… fleeting doesn’t last, at least not for very long.

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“So if you could find it in your heart

To give a man a second start

I promise things won’t end the same.”

-     - The Avett Brothers

Hands Remember – Seabear

A little piece of Lake

In short ;)

This book is far too deep – for me at least- to review.

So, if you loved Slammed then you must know where this crazy family goes…

I very much so need a third book. There are so many things I need closure on… Perhaps we can have a discussion about it after you read it. Big smiles and high fives! Colleen Hoover created an emotional mess of things that make the world go round.  

“Are you aware the shape I'm in?

My hands they shake, my head it spins.”

-     -The Avett Brothers