Maybe Someday
Colleen Hoover, 2014
A music student who hides her own songwriting listens every night to the guitarist across the courtyard — until he catches her watching. A witty, music-soaked romance that moves quickly, with longing and unease humming under the attraction and a voice that stays sharp and self-aware.
Feels like longing and unease. About love, ambition and freedom.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you enjoy contemporary romance with musical chemistry, witty banter, and characters torn between safe plans and real desire. The attraction carries some moral unease and messy choices, so it may not suit you if you want a romance without emotional friction.
Why read it
It gives you a quick, song-shaped romance about wanting more than the safe plan, and the pull between longing and ambition keeps the story alive.
A page from the book
How a whole life gets settled by a beer and a nine o'clock bedtime.
Am I ready to fall into this comfortable life with him? One where I teach all day and he does people’s taxes, and then we come home and I cook dinner and I “grab him beers” while he props his feet up and calls me babe, and then we go to our bed and make love at approximately nine P.M. so we won’t be tired the next day, in order to wake up and get dressed and go to work and do it all over again? Colleen Hoover.Colleen Hoover worked as a social worker in Texas before self-publishing her debut, Slammed, in 2012; readers, not reviewers, made her a bestseller.
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Questions readers ask
- Is Maybe Someday for me?
- You may like it if you enjoy contemporary romance with musical chemistry, witty banter, and characters torn between safe plans and real desire. The attraction carries some moral unease and messy choices, so it may not suit you if you want a romance without emotional friction.
- What is Maybe Someday like?
- A witty, music-soaked romance that moves quickly, with longing and unease humming under the attraction and a voice that stays sharp and self-aware. Feels like longing and unease. About love, ambition and freedom.
- What should I read after Maybe Someday?
- If you liked Maybe Someday, try Not in Love (Ali Hazelwood), Where She Went (Gayle Forman) and Play Along (Liz Tomforde).
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How it feels to be seen as someone’s exact dream.
I’d never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone’s entire fantasy life.
Not in Love · Ali Hazelwood
What you'd pay again, knowing exactly what it costs.
But I’d do it again. I know that now. I’d make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she’s somewhere out there. Alive.
Where She Went · Gayle Forman
To be the one always understood, and never the one doing the understanding.
I never had to beg for your attention, and I’m not sure you’ll ever fully understand how safe that became for me, knowing you were giving it to me willingly. I never had to ask you to see me, to understand me, and I’m sorry that I haven’t allowed you to be able to say the same. But I promise you, Isaiah, now that my eyes have been opened, I can’t keep them off you.
Play Along · Liz Tomforde
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