Book Review: Confess by Colleen Hoover

Confess by Colleen Hoover

I must confess (hee hee) that Colleen Hoover's books are my guilty pleasure.  They read quickly and always have a romantic plot that pulls me in and makes me want to read more.  Confess lives up to all of the hype with this one!

Summary by Goodreads:

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies. 

Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.

For once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover Owen is keeping major secrets from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.

The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as art. All he would have to do to save their relationship is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin…

My Thoughts:

I honestly loved this book.  Maybe it was timing, maybe it was the connections I made with the characters, maybe it was my desire to know the secrets Owen and Auburn carried with themselves causing them to make the decisions that they do throughout the novel.  Either way, I was shocked by some of the negative reviews on Goodreads.  I started reading this book on Thursday and finished it Friday night.  

I felt this bond with Auburn and Owen and couldn't stop reading until I uncovered their secrets.  I sensed their connection from their first I loved how Hoover weaved this theme of secrecy and confessions throughout the novel.  It wasn't until towards the end of the story that I started to pick up on all the clues of how Owen knew Auburn from the past.  As in all Colleen Hoover novels, there are definitely some scenes with sexual tension and I am not sure I would recommend this book to the 9th and 10th graders, but I can see many of our older students checking this one out.