Out of Love: Hazel Hayes

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But Gabby”, I hear you say, “isn’t Out of Love a romance, and like you said before also slightly festive? Surely oh surely scroogey, this counts as the mush you just slandered?”. So this time I’m giving three solid, it’s okay read but it could be better, getting rid of toxic relationships and toxic people as I’m listening Britney’s Toxic song stars! Twenty one year old College Senior Livy knows exactly what she wants when it comes to her career. She’s determined, strong willed, and the highlight of her days are surfing and hanging with her girls. With an overprotective father now miles away, Livy is hell bent on making this year her best. But when she meets the new brooding student who could care less about her, her plan for a smooth year is going to be one bumpy and deadly ride. The woman can write, there's no doubt, but this just wasn't anything special and I'm sure I amn't the only of her followers who found it impossible to separate the characters from her and the people in her online life. The book appears to document her real breakup with her ex boyfriend, Ollie, and is so in line with her real life from all she has shared from vlogs that I don't know why she didn't simply write a memoir.

Wow, I haven't experienced such a "book-hangover" in a very long time... I can not describe how much I LOVED this book, each and every part of it!!! 💛 Hayes' writing is stunning at parts, and she has such a way with words that sometimes I just had to stop and really take in a sentence or section of the book. What's more, she is really very funny and some of the scenes and comments made me really laugh. Some of it is rather dry humour, but I love that. So yeeah as I said a lot of angst and I usually don't dig too much angst, but this time it was good! The ending is very bittersweet tho. My review isn't going to do the justice this book deserves because I'm speechless and I don't really know where to start lol

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A] bittersweet love story without heroes or villains. Hayes strips away the layers to reveal the heart of a relationship between two flawed but appealing characters with their whole futures ahead of them. Recommended for fans of One Day (2010) by David Nicholls and Normal People (2019) by Sally Rooney.” — Booklist

It's like she never took a break in between these books. B.R.I.L.L.I.A.N.T.🌷 she drives this juggernaut into yet another territory with same aplomb and trademark humor and sass, it leaves me in awe of her immeasurable talent Unlike Holly Bourne’s The Places I've Cried in Public, I don’t think that the narrative style worked for this book. To be honest, I wasn’t able to sympathise with the main character here, which might have been my biggest problem. From the beginning, the reader knows that Theo is a horrible man, but, after finishing the book, the main character could have seen this from the beginning of their relationship. The more I read, the less I cared about their relationship.This book here was one I was highly anticipating, and once it landed on my trust bible (my ipad) life as I knew it was turned off, I devoured it, I loved it, the amount of times I giggled were priceless. The amount of times I swooned were too many times to count. To say I loved this book is an understatement!! Every emotion was wrung out of me, a rollercoaster of feels which I never wanted to end.