Point of Retreat
Colleen Hoover, 2012
Romance Young adultContemporary fiction
A young man raising his little brother falls for the girl across the street, and finds that love is mostly the unglamorous work of proving it.
Feels like longing, tenderness and hope. About love, family and identity.
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The difference between wanting someone and being certain about them.
My heart pounds against my chest. Not because I’m nervous. Not even because I want her worse that I’ve ever wanted her before. It’s pounding against my chest because I realize I’ve never been so sure about the rest of my life than I am in this moment. This girl is the rest of my life. Colleen Hoover.Hoover worked for years as a social worker and wrote in the margins of that job; she self-published her first two novels in 2012 before a major house picked them up.
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- What is Point of Retreat like?
- Feels like longing, tenderness and hope. About love, family and identity.
- What should I read after Point of Retreat?
- If you liked Point of Retreat, try Everything, Everything (Nicola Yoon), Hopeless (Elsie Silver) and The Last Letter (Rebecca Yarros).
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