I cannot stop thinking about the characters in Slammed and Point of Retreat. Will and Lake truly got me feeling all mushy and gushy over love. I mean I just want to lock myself up in my office and write slam poetry about my husband and wish that he would reciprocate the action!
But what I'd really love to see, is Colleen Hoover tell us the story of Eddie and Gavin from the beginning! I want to hear about Eddie's past and how her and Gavin came to be so perfect for each other. Then maybe a second book that tells us what happens during and after the events in Point of Retreat from their POV.
***Don't read on if you don't want spoilers from Slammed or Point of Retreat***
Eddie is a spunky girl who has learned to face the cards she's been dealt. She is the product of a drug addict mother who, after trying to sell her at age 9, loses her daughter to the system. Not that she cared. Eddie is raised by many different families and has many different siblings throughout her time in foster care. Luckily she ends up with Joel at the age of 14, and the poor guy has no clue how to raise, but falls in love for her like any great father love his daughter. Who wouldn't want more than just the snippets in Slammed, to learn about Eddie's trials and tribulations???
Eddie and Gavin are one of the most genuinely in love couples I've read about. They love each other endlessly. Gavin, an 18 year old during Slammed, is spunky enough to write slam poetry to Eddie and recite it in class sans embarrassment. In Point of Retreat they reach a bump {hehe} in their relationship when they find out Eddie is pregnant. They struggle with the realization of being parents at such a young age, especially since they see their friends experience first hand. Gavin has a hard time telling Eddie how he feels about the situation, and doesn't do a great job of helping her through her emotions of being pregnant. Towards the end of the book Eddie is in a car accident and that is when Gavin realizes he loves Eddie and their future baby girl more than anything. At the end of Point of Retreat, Lake and Will let Eddie and Gavin take Lake's mother's house for the next couple of months.
So my thoughts...
Book 1: Learn about Eddie and Gavin, their past, and how their love story unfolds. Maybe end with their pregnancy.
Book 2: How Eddie and Gavin deal with being 19 and pregnant with friends who raise their siblings there to give advice
I'll have to email Colleen and see if maybe just maybe she'll consider this as a book option!?
Wow! You connected with my secondary characters that much? What a compliment. I will admit, I would love to hear Eddie's story, too. After I wrote Slammed I had no intentions of writing a sequel, but I couldn't let the characters go. After Point of Retreat, I REALLY had no intentions of continuing on. Now I'm writing SLAMMED from Will's pov. So...who knows! I apparently don't follow through with my original intentions much. I actually started writing Eddie's story a while back but shelved it in favor of a different book I had ideas for. Maybe after I get my next two books published, I might just move back to Eddie's story. Very good ideas to include how the met, fell in love, etc. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm just reading "Slammed" and the first thing I did was to google for an Eddie and Gavin novel. I honestly thought it has already been written. :) I find the two of them absolutely lovely, and I think it would be an amazing thing to get their full story. To some extent, I like them even better than Layken and Will :)
ReplyDeleteI really hope you write about Eddie and Gavin 💓 Colleen xoxo
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