Point of Retreat- Colleen Hoover

I just now... like an hour ago... finished this book. It is the second installment of Slammed by Colleen Hoover. Point of Retreat picks up a year after Slammed ends. 

Point of Retreat was, I have to say, even better than Slammed. I actually cried, laughed, and slammed out loud! It was incredible. I love that I feel like the characters are all part of my own extended family. I even feel the need to use key phrases like "butterfly you" or "carving pumpkins." Those of you that have read one or both of these books, will understand what I mean. 

Colleen definitely outdid herself with this book and I really hope she gives us more snippets of Layken and Will on her blog. 

This is the Amazon.com synopsis for Point of Retreat:

Layken and Will's relationship persevered through hardships, heartache and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together.  What they don't expect is that the things that brought them together may ultimately be the very things that tear them apart. 

 Layken is left questioning the very foundation on which their relationship was built.  Will is left questioning how to prove his love for a girl who can't seem to stop "carving pumpkins."Once they find answers, the couple faces an even greater challenge.  One that could change not only their lives, but the lives of everyone who depend on them.

Loved:

• Will and Lake!!! <33333333
• watching the boys grow up from the last book
• Kiersten and Sherry's characters
• sucks and sweets (worst and best part of each day)
• the poetry before each chapter
• Julia, Lake's mother's, grasp on life even after death
• the tragedy that makes a good story
• slams
• the inside jokes that make you feel like a part of the story

Loathed {disliked}:

• the lack of trust and communication that occurs
• that there wasn't as much slam poetry as in Slammed

Jason Mraz's I Won't Give Up is the perfect song to accompany this book. Colleen posted it on her blog, and as soon as I finished Point of Retreat I was compelled to listen to it. It completely and utterly encompasses what this book is about. 

Listen to it on loop while you eat up Point of Retreat!

Go and buy it!!! $3.99 Will. Not. Break. Your. Bank.