Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover Book Review
“There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with twenty-six letters. You would think there were only so many ways those letters could make you feel when mixed up and shoved together to make words.
However, there are infinite ways those twenty-six letters can make a person feel, and this song is living proof. I’ll never understand how a few simple words strung together can change a person, but this song, these words, are completely changing me. I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.”
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Author: Coleen Hoover
Genre: New Adult Contemporary
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Synopsis
Sydney is living in an idyllic bubble—she’s a dedicated student with a steady job on the side. She lives with her best friend, has a great boyfriend, and the music coming from the balcony opposite hers is fast becoming the soundtrack to her life. But when Sydney finds out her boyfriend is cheating on her, the bubble bursts. The mysterious and attractive man behind the music, Ridge, gives Sydney hope that she can move on and they begin to write songs together. But moving on is harder than she expects, Sydney can only hope….
Maybe someday…
Review
Spoilers Contained Below
To the Toris, the Hunters, the Sydneys, and the Ridges,
MY GOSH.
You know I read this book a couple years ago and I remember it was such a good book, but it wasn’t my all time favorite Colleen Hoover book, but I know it wrenched my heart out and threw it on the sidewalk for cars to run over. And I forgot how painful this book was.
So, naturally, of course, I had to put myself through it again because I just wanted to read something romantic, but also familiar.
What a ride.
I mean the book started off with Sydney in the rain because dumb Hunter had to go and cheat on her. The book really just puts you in your place from the get-go and I felt so bad for Sydney because it was her birthday and she spent it in the rain with her heartbroken and nowhere to go. That had to suck.
But you know what just made things better?
Was the fact that she hit Tori and Hunter and then hit Hunter again 😂. I mean get this girl a Rumble membership, am I right? 🤪
I’m joking.
Anyway, backtrack to a couple weeks before when she first went out on the balcony to hear Ridge play. Since I read this book before, I knew Ridge was deaf, but Sydney didn’t know it, but I just found it cute how it became their little tradition or routine of sorts to go out on the balcony to either play the guitar to hear him play the guitar. I loved how we hear from both Sydney’s and Ridge’s perspective because Ridge would go out every night to play for her because he knew she would be there and Sydney went out every night because she knew the very same thing. Then Ridge saw her mouthing the words to one of his songs and held up a note with his number on it and Sydney was like, “I have a boyfriend and this guy should not be trying to hit on me,” granted she did text Ridge back and told him that. Ridge of course knew that, but when I read this scene, I imagined You Belong With Me Taylor Swift video vibes if you know what I mean. How cute and fun would it be to live across from Ridge!!
It was cute how Sydney gave him her lyrics to a song he played and Ridge being Ridge decided to tease her and not reply to her lyrics to make her anxious because Sydney didn’t know if her lyrics were good. Ridge knew they were good and he sent it to his brother, Brennan, right away. Ridge has been in a writing slump for his band, Sounds of Cedar, and Sydney’s lyrics are like a Godsend to him and just the whole making of their relationship was cute in how they would text and send lyrics to each other. There had to be a level of hesitancy on Sydney’s part because she didn’t really know Ridge but when you write something as deep as lyrics or a story, there’s a part of yourself in those lyrics or words and I feel like Ridge was getting to see that about Sydney. Ridge also saw the predicament he was in because he knew Tori and Hunter were having “fun” behind her back and he didn’t know if it was his place to tell her. That had to be a hard position to be in. I don’t know what I would have done if I was Ridge, but I liked how he was respectful of Sydney and did tell her after a while because he knew that if the situation were reversed he would want someone to tell him.
And gosh, he told her on her birthday of all days!! 😆 It wasn’t like he was trying to be rude to her on her birthday, but what sucked was Sydney thought Hunter and Tori were meeting together in secret because they were planning her a surprise birthday party, but no no no no no no NO! I wanted to shake Sydney and tell her it’s not a coincidence that your best friend and your boyfriend would be at the same restaurant on the same odd day and try to cover it up like they didn’t see each other because why wouldn’t Hunter just be like, “Oh, Tori was there too.” You don’t omit information unless you have something to hide 🙈! I really just never liked Hunter either. He treated Sydney like a maid, making her get his beer after work and her cleaning and cooking, I mean he had two feet to get his own dang beer and cook his own dang food because he’s a grown man and you do not domesticate a woman. And I just felt bad for Sydney too because I feel like her relationship with Hunter was very safe. She felt like he was the only option for her and it wouldn’t get better than him, so she just stayed in the relationship because it was going fine—–it wasn’t bad. I think that’s the hardest part about being in those types of relationships because it’s going okay, but it doesn’t give you the sense of full-blown love and so it’s hard to get out of that relationship because there’s no excuse for you to leave, so you stay. But I just want to say, be in a relationship that consumes you in the best possible way—–with love, happiness, hope, and one that challenges you. Sydney couldn’t even see herself having a future with Hunter and that’s when I was kind like, “Girl,, you need to bounce,” because if you can’t see yourself having a future with someone, than do force yourself to because that’s only going to make you miserable in the future and question why you ever did stay.
When Ridge told her, there was a part of me that felt Sydney knew it already because Sydney’s not dumb. And I think she was accepting of it because it finally gave her an excuse to leave Hunter, but at the same time it made her lost and confused because she had no one and nowhere to go. Yes, she was heartbroken, but I think it had more to do with losing Tori as a friend and the fact that Tori would do that to her than actually losing Hunter because she never really like liked him as far as I could feel. I also loved how she went back with Ridge to get her purse from Hunter’s apartment and then he answered the door and Ridge was there speaking/signing on behalf of Sydney and Hunter was acting all possessive and macho manly about it. Get off your high horse you cheater! And then Hunter was like, “Who are you? And something about if he was doing her?” And Ridge came back with the most hilarious response of, “Why do you think I’m here for her purse. She needed change.” I love a savage Ridge 😂. And then Hunter was going to hit him, but Sydney came and hit him instead and I was HERE for it! Someone seriously has a career as a future wrestler if songwriting doesn’t work out. I’m joking. But it was hilarious.
What was also funny was how Bridgett thought she was deaf like Ridge and would yell in front of Sydney all the time as if though that would somehow help her hear. I don’t get why people yell when they talk to people who are deaf? I guess maybe it helps sometimes, but I think in other times it can come across as offensive. What I really liked was how Ridge allowed Sydney to stay at his apartment with them because he was the bearer of bad news on her birthday and she had nowhere to go. I know if I was Sydney I would be kind of skeptical to stay with a guy I barely knew, but I guess if you hit rock bottom and someone offers you a home, might as well. What was super sweet was how Ridge took her out for cake despite her terrible day, and it just made her forget about Hunter and actually enjoy her birthday for a second. The rest of the week Sydney was in her feels and Ridge had to deal with a family emergency of sorts, but when they started writing, it was magic!
It was also VERY intimate!
Especially considering Ridge had a girlfriend that Sydney had no idea of. It’s not like Sydney asked though, so she can’t really blame Ridge. But I mean, the whole writing songs with him pressing up against her and her pressing up against him and then her moving into his lap, was all very kinky if you ask me. Are you sure that’s your writing process Ridge or your flirting mechanism? 😉 I would write a song with Ridge anyway and anytime, just give me the date and time. All jokes aside, I also thought there was something very unique and cool about the way Ridge wrote music and how he had to listen to the person that close to feel the sound and it makes you think how sometimes we don’t think about other people and how they live. We are so lucky to have our senses whether it be seeing, feeling, or hearing that sometimes we don’t realize that other people can’t see, feel, or hear things and how they have to adapt to that. Just because a person can’t see, feel, or hear, doesn’t make them any less than anyone else and I just thought I’d say that because it’s so important to recognize that disability is not inability and I also just appreciated the way Sydney never talked down to Ridge (or should I say blatantly yell at him) and how she respected him as someone who couldn’t hear. I loved how she accepted him and, yes, she was kind of awkward about asking him about how it was like not to hear, but I think all of us feels a bit awkward in those situations because we don’t want to come across offensive or inconsiderate, but I liked how we could read from Ridge’s perspective how he liked the way Sydney talked to him like a real person and how just because he couldn’t hear, she never treated him that way.
Anyway, I liked the whole process of them writing music and I think besides feeling her sing, I think he could hear her racing heart. Or maybe my heart because gosh it was just such a special scene where you could feel both of them falling in love or just having those feelings of more. I remember the first time when I read this book, this was the part that also stuck out to me because it was so bizarrely weird, but in a good way.
But then we figure out Ridge has a girlfriend because OF COURSE!!! Of course a cute guy who writes songs has a nice, beautiful, kind-hearted girlfriend with whom he’s fully in love with and has such a long history with. BECAUSE OF COURSE!
Darn. It just broke my heart for Sydney because you know she likes Ridge and she just broke up with her boyfriend, so she would naturally have feelings for him. But there’s also this part of Sydney that knows that she shouldn’t’ like Ridge even before she knew he had a girlfriend. Sydney always talked about wanting to be independent and to live on her own even when she was with Hunter so she could be cemented in who she was, which I highly respected from her. I think it takes a lot of self-awareness to be like, “i want to spend time with myself to figure things out before I can go forward in a relationship,” and I think often times if you’ve been in a relationship all throughout high school to college or for a long period of time when you’re in those young adult years where you’re figuring things out—–who you are, what you want to do, where you want to live——you often get lost in the relationships and who you are gets sidetrack. So Sydney didn’t want to like him right away knowing she should spend time for herself and to heal and figure things out. But you know as Ridge says:
“However, I’ve learned that the heart can’t be told when and who and how it should love. The heart does whatever the heck it wants to do. The only thing we can control is whether we give our lives and our minds the chance to catch up to our hearts.”
The heart wants what it wants.
You know, I really wanted to find a fault with Maggie. You really want to hate her. You really want to break down every part of her to find some sort of hamartia/flaw so that you can justify why Ridge should cheat on Maggie with Sydney or at least break up with Maggie to date Sydney. But nope. Colleen Hoover doesn’t cut you breaks. She makes you break.
Maggie is the most loving, caring, and sweet person you will meet and you literally cannot find anything to hate about her. Which made me dislike her in the way that I couldn’t dislike her if that makes sense? I liked her, I just didn’t like how she was standing in the way of Ridge and Sydney being together. You could honestly tell though how much Ridge loved her with the way he made her laugh and smile and how he would tell her everything and even ask her uncomfortable questions. Like Ridge was starting to feel things for Sydney even when Sydney and Maggie first met, but yet he still respected Maggie enough to communicate with her and look at her like she was the only one in the room. I have so much respect for Ridge in that sense because he always wanted to do right by Maggie no matter how much his heart was starting to feel something else and I think that’s such a hard thing to do and in most cases a guy would cheat or call it off, but Ridge never did that, yet.
Before I get into that though, there’s a reason he never called it off. And FRIEND and Ridge would always talk about how, “You have to be loyal to Maggie,” and “You love Maggie,” and FRIEND would always tell Sydney that Ridge would never break up with Maggie and all the while I’m thinking why in the heck would he never break up with her/ Never say never, I’m I right? But FRIEND sounded so sure of himself like it was N-E-V-E-R going to happen and it was like is Ridge under some obligation to stay with her or something? I wanted to know!!!
Then we figure it out later on, but we’ll get to that because something momentous happens before that.
Ridge kissed Sydney!!!! I wanted it to happen, but I also didn’t want it to happen, you know? Because Maggie was so nice and I didn’t want her to get hurt, but I loved Sydney and Ridge together and you know what? Ridge and Sydney’s hearts were as torn in two as my own. Then the whole scene was beautiful because they kissed and finally gave into their feelings as they were writing the song and you could tell they wanted to kiss more, but Sydney pulled back because she knew it was wrong. And literally you could hear my heart DROP on the floor because Sydney’s tears start to drop and Ridge starts to break and I start to cry and it’s all a mess. This whole book’s one big emotional mess! (in a good way). When Sydney cries, it hurts. HURTS. Because she became a Tori. That’s the one thing Ridge promised her he’d never make her when she moved in. Because they knew they were getting too close in their feelings and they talked about it and she told Ridge to promise him to never make her a Tori, and when he kissed her he did and now he was the Hunter and Maggie was the Sydney and GOSH. I could feel Sydney’s anguish as much as Ridge’s because as much as she felt bad about the kiss, she also didn’t fully regret it because she liked Ridge and Ridge liked her. Under other circumstances it would have been better, but this wasn’t the ideal.
But can we take a moment to talk about how freaking mature these two were? For the life of me they had the most self-control and self-respect I have ever seen two people who have wanted to date, but couldn’t. They knew they had feelings for each other in the way they talked and through the way they created songs and not once did they make anything happen (except when they kissed) and even after that they found a way to maintain a cordial friendship and partnership with writing. It was awkward as heck because Ridge wanted to be near her and Sydney wanted to be near him, but they would stay as far away from each other as possible to not give into that need. I also liked how after they had that kiss, they talked about it knowing that they had to do it sooner than later. I also really loved the notes they wrote each other about their feelings and how they admitted to it, but knew that they couldn’t act on it—–or in Ridge’s case, that he couldn’t commit to Sydney in the way she might have wanted. What I just loved about Ridge was how open and honest he was—-he’s truly a guy who wears his heart on his sleeve and tells you what he’s feeling and I love that. I guess that’s why he can write good songs. But I also liked how they had this little agreement that whenever they felt like their feelings for each other were too much, they would type each other’s flaws to somehow lessen their feelings. I thought it was cute because when you learn about someone’s “flaws” you usually see it as a turnoff because either 1) ewwww the person is totally gross 2) the person’s totally creepy or 3) makes you think why you ever liked the person. But whenever Sydney and Ridge gave each other flaws, they didn’t see it as a turnoff, but they both saw it as a way of getting to know the deeper parts of each other and I loved that. But I also thought that defeated the purpose of the whole thing. The part where Ridge was like, “No flaw was ever going to make me stop liking her,” or something like that, I knew that no flaw truly would.
Speaking of Ridge and his generous heart, I loved how with Sydney he could be more open and honest about things. I loved when he told her stories he had never told anyone else before. He told her about his family and how he used to talk until his dad scolded him harshly for it or I think abused him for it when he was standing up for his brother and that made him stop talking because he probably associated speaking out with pain and like speaking out would get punished. Which is such a hard thing to feel at a young age——like you’ll get punished for your voice. I felt completely bad that Ridge ever had to feel like that or to feel embarrassed to talk. Or even feel like he couldn’t talk in fear that it was wrong sounding or that he would get hurt from it. No one should ever be silenced. Then there was the other story of why the band was called Sounds of Cedar. I loved this story in how his parents would have parties where they would get drunk or something and the brother, Brennan would always be scared. They had to have their doors closed and stay in their room until the party was over and Ridge, being the good old brother, would always worry about Brennan and would want to comfort him but he couldn’t do that until he knew the party was done. But Ridge couldn’t hear or see when that would be, so he would listen to the floorboards until he stopped hearing the music. The floorboards were made out of cedar. If that story doesn’t give you chills, I don’t know what will! The story goes with how down-to-earth and loving Ridge is, how he always looks out for other people and how he turned this dark period with his family into something hopeful and light with a band and what it meant. It meant protecting his brother and loving him. I love a brother relationship and you could really see how much they did love each other.
I thought it was hilarious when Sydney and Maggie were drunk and then Maggie told Sydney to show Ridge her bra and they go to the living room and they show “Ridge” who was actually Brennan 😂 Then Sydney’s like, “You’re not deaf,” and I was cracking up. If that was really Ridge, I think part of him would have been angry but also very intrigued because he would have been looking at a topless Sydney. He was angry in part at Maggie and Sydney for being drunk, but the whole irony of the striation was how he had to take care of both of them—–both half of his hearts. When they were lying in his bed and FRIEND and him were looking at them snuggled together, I knew that they felt what I felt——-how bad Ridge had it. He was in a mess because lying on that bed were the two people he loved most in the world and yet one he had and one he wished he had. Both he cared about.
And it brought up the idea of loving two people. I’ve also recently reread the Infernal Devices series which reminded me a lot of Maybe Someday in how it is possible to love two people. And how beautiful is it to have that opportunity in life? To not just have one great love, but two. And there really was no working around Ridge’s love for both half of his hearts.
What pained me was how he had to push Sydney aside and constantly have to say Maggie Maggie Maggie in his head. There was also the part where Hunter tried to apologize to Sydney that day and he went inside Ridge’s apartment and Ridge saw him. When Ridge saw him, his jaw tauten and his guards were up and I was like “He’s jealous.” 😆 Like duh! Nothing makes a man jealous than seeing the girl he likes with another man, yet alone the douché ex. For a second I was thinking that Sydney was going to take Hunter back because she knew she couldn’t be with Ridge, then I was like, Sydney knows better than that. I never doubted her. But Ridge was beyond UPSET that Hunter was there and I get it, but the only reason he acted that way was because he obviously liked Sydney and Sydney knew that.
Another raw moment that really got me was when Ridge wrote on her hand to move out or when he wrote on her hand something and then they went into the bathroom and she was crying and he helped her wash his words off her skin. I forgot what he wrote exactly, but again there was something so intimate about washing the words he wrote off her skin.
But the day after the party, Sydney went to the bathroom and Maggie collapsed on the floor and that whole scene was the scene to end all scenes in this book. It was heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching, antagonizing, and so hard that I was just like, “What’s going on? What’s going on?” First, Maggie’s having a seizure and Sydney is trying to call Ridge but Ridge can’t hear and then she wakes him up and he’s all worried. Then she has to scramble for the phone to call 911 and Ridge can’t communicate or tell her what’s wrong with Maggie because she doesn’t know sign language and he doesn’t really talk and it’s a whole mess until Sydney gets Warren to wake up and then the ambulance comes. Warren was suchhhhhh a beep to her during this whole part and I thoroughly wanted to hit him over the head because I get you don’t like Sydney because she’s distracting Ridge from Maggie and things like that, but did he really have to have such a potty mouth when he talked to her? Like I thought you guys were friends. I did not like Warren at all. He was telling Sydney that she couldn’t come and to back off and I get it came from a place of love, but still. Don’t be a darn rude person.
During this time, we learn that Maggie lives with Cystic Fibrosis and that Warren used to date Maggie. The whole story revolving around Maggie is really cute and kind of touching. I loved the whole idea of how Ridge and Warren saw her at this school convention thing and they both liked her, but Warren talked to or saw her first and asked her out, so Maggie said yes. They dated for a while and Ridge took a step back from his feelings because he’s respectful like that, but when Warren had his “fun,” Ridge was beyond mad because he thought Maggie deserved someone better. When Maggie and Warren broke up, Ridge wanted to date her, but knew that would violate the bro-code of not dating the ex, so Warren and him came up with a middle ground of that he had to wait a year to ask her out. And what really melted my heart and left me wanting a personal Ridge in my life was the fact that Ridge circled the date a year later on his calendar when he could ask Maggie out and how during this time Maggie went to his apartment when Brennan was living there and he told Maggie how much Ridge liked him and how he was waiting a year to ask her out due to bro code. Maggie said something about how she actually liked Ridge when she first saw both of them, so after that day, she marked her own calendar to count down the days Ridge would come. And it’s just so magical knowing that they were waiting for each other or how Ridge could have fallen in love with anyone within that year, but he waited for Maggie because he knew he liked her that much. And I mean, what kind of man does that? A good man I tell you. A loyal man. So that’s why he felt like he had to stay with her because he fought for her this long already and just giving up on that would feel wrong. There’s also the fact that if he broke up with her, it would crush Maggie’s heart in her already stressful and complicated life and Ridge didn’t want to be that burden of bad news like, “Hey, I fell in love with someone else. Bye.” Like no Ridge wouldn’t do that because he’s not that type of person.
So he told Sydney she had to move out and she knew she had to because she was in too deep and if she didn’t her feelings wouldn’t stop. The whole part when Ridge and her were chatting on the laptop about how she needed to move out and how he loved her and didn’t regret it was the saddest, most heart-swelling thing you could ever read. Just make it work guys! Or how Sydney was already going to pack up and leave and how Ridge said goodbye to her, but he knew he wanted to say goodbye in person because she was the other half of his heart and she deserved that. So he left the hospital for a bit to say goodbye to Sydney and part of me was like what if she already left. I mean, that would suck! But she didn’t. He saw her and it was so much worse because there were all these feelings they knew they couldn’t act on or shouldn’t have and let me just tell you when Ridge speaks for Sydney those parts MELTED AND BLEW UP my heart. He never spoke for Maggie. But he spoke for her and that’s how I knew that he liked Sydney more in how he was like “I don’t regret it,” and all of those things. Short and simple words, but impactful words. That’s what Ridge was.
“I need you . . . to hear this,” he says, cradling my head in his hands. “I . . . will never . . . regret you.”
Then Maggie had to go and read his gosh darn messages on his laptop from how he kissed Sydney and loved her. Then Sydney’s crying all over again when Ridge runs to her to make things right. She moves out and doesn’t know where to go, so she goes to a hotel under Ridge’s money. The whole waiting period where Sydney and Ridge are a part is like a rift in a chasm that you just want to jump over so you can see what happens in the end because THEY HAVE TO BE TOGETHER 😩.
The whole conversation with Maggie after she learned about Ridge cheating was also highly mature. Ridge sure knows how to pick them, doesn’t he? I have so much respect for Maggie as well in how she wasn’t mad at Ridge and the fact that he kissed another woman or loved her, she was more mad that she was holding him back from that and he was holding her back. She felt like Ridge only cared about her and wanted to take care of her as an obligation rather than a lover and she wanted someone who didn’t confine her or stopped her from living her life. She wanted someone who recognized that she was strong and still full of life and she wanted to let go of Ridge so that she could live a strong and free life with whatever time she had left. I loved that. I loved that part where Ridge was sad about how Maggie and him broke up, but when she realized that Maggie was never worn or needed saving, but that she was strong already and she could save herself. To me, that just felt like a breath of fresh air for Ridge and a weight lifted off his chest that he didn’t need to worry about her or feel this pressure to be with her out of obligation to care for her life, but it made him feel like he could go after what he wanted.
What he wanted was Sydney.
I loved the whole game with Warren and Ridge and how he would take Warren’s things and hide them until Warren told him Sydney’s dress. First it was the car keys, then it was the condoms and that part was FUNNY. I was like, of course Ridge would do that. I loved how Warren was like, “I’ll just take Bridgette’s car to buy more,” and Ridge was like, “Good luck finding her keys.” 😂 Can we stop to mention how much I loved how they were all pranksters and how they even made a prankster out of Sydney. I mean you gotta love the Oreo and toothpaste prank, the eggs with the chemicals in it for Warren, or the fish in Hunter’s car. I loved their pranks.
Obviously, Ridge got her address and the first thing he did was go see Sydney. When he saw her, my heart dropped and lifted and flew and time stopped. I’m going to take one from Sydney, but
“Beat beat, pause.
Contract, expand.
Inhale, exhale.”
The heart palpitations were coming.
I felt a kiss coming on when they got together and they did give into their feelings after talking about it. But what also just broke me was how Sydney couldn’t get into it because she knew Ridge was just coming off of a heartbreak and that he wasn’t thinking clearly or that he still loved Maggie in some ways. When Sydney asked him, “If she were to take you back, would you go to her?” or something like that, my heart just cracked straight down the middle and shattered on the floor. Ridge said nothing. I said nothing. Because we all knew the answer. And Sydney started to cry. Sydney cries a lot in this book but it’s kind of warranted given the emotional turmoil she experiences time in and time out during everything. But when Sydney started to cry and Ridge saw that he started to cry and that REALLY JUST TOOK any shard of my heart left and smashed it into more pieces
HE WAS CRYING BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE TO MAKE SYDNEY BE THIS SAD AND CRY! 😪 I’m not crying you are!!! I mean get you a man who cries because you cry and who feels what you feel.
I was crying 😭.
And the whole notes they wrote for each other and the whole note he left her after holding her when she cried was the sweetest thing ever. Ridge had the strength to walk away from her and give her time to heal and be by herself like she wanted and I hadddddddddd soooooo much respect for Ridge in doing that. He wanted to be with her, but knew his wound and her wounds were still fresh and open and they needed to both heal.
So they took time a part where he finally got inspiration to write songs because like Brennan said, heartbreak makes for good music. I loved how even though Sydney moved out, Warren still visited her and spent all this time with her. He updated her on all things Bridget and him and occasionally Ridge. I liked how they still cared for each other, but kept their distances out of respect.
Then Ridge had it and just wanted to see her. So Warren coerces her to go to this bar concert where Ridge planned to sing all these songs he wrote for Sydney. I loved how Warren told her straight up that she’s being a prude and to wear that dress that he liked. Warren’s a tough love kind of friend and as much as he irritated me when Maggie was in the hospital and he was being rude to Sydney, you gotta love his honesty.
“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
I loved how when he was announcing Sounds of Cedar he said to the audience, “How there were good days and bad days and how this was a really good day.” It was a good day. The way Sydney was enraptured by the music and the sound was how much I was enraptured by it. I mean, Ridge was full fledged singing. I don’t even know Ridge in real life, but even I could feel that when he was on that stage there was something more confident in him and more assured and I loved that time gave him that.
The last song was what just had me gushing with how he basically asked her for the signal of when.
“Even after all this time
I still want you
Even after all my mind
Put me through
I stand here at your door
Until you come and let me in
I want to be your end
But you gotta let it begin
So won’t you
Won’t you let it begin
So won’t you
Won’t you just when.”
(pg. 353)
Then Sydney, my GOSH, Sydney signed when to him.
THINGS COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER 💛.
The fact that she learned sign language for him during this time was the sweetest thing. I loved how they got back together and they finally acted on what they knew to be true. Sydney was the other half of his heart that he chose and Maggie would always be someone he would care about and love, but she wasn’t someone who challenged him, made him inspired, or as strong a person as he was with Sydney. Their love knows no bounds, no limits, no volumes. I love love and they make me love love to the fullest.
Maybe someday I can find a love like that or maybe find a real life Ridge 🥰.
Anyway, if you read this book, what was your favorite part? Your least favorite part? Your favorite song from the book? Let me know below in the comments as I love hearing form you all.
I hope you have a beautiful and bright day whenever and wherever you might be reading this.
And as always, with love,
Rating
4.98 Full Bloom Flowers
Characters: Honestly loved the different POVs in getting to see the anguish from both Sydney and Ridge’s characters. Two of the most mature characters you’ll ever find in romance history because as hard as they try to not make things work, they also tried hard to make it work also.
Writing: I mean does Colleen Hoover ever disappoint?
Plot: I mean where does she come up with these ideas? It’s like she thinks of what the worst way to hurt a heart and she steps all over it ten thousand times. Thanks
Romance: Colleen Hoover needs to pay for my medical bill because I’ve been having heart palpitations with this book.