We both finish our sandwiches, and I put the trash back in the bag and place it in the backseat. They go out on one date-a pretty strange date-that includes homemade sandwiches, little personal information exchanged and a visit to a slam poetry event. Naturally, she meets the 21-year old hottie across the street, Will, immediately after she pulls the moving truck into the driveway. Slammed begins with high school senior Layken (yes, there are weird names in this book, and yes, Layken sometimes goes by “Lake”) moving from Texas to Michigan with her mother and brother, following the sudden death of her father. Once Atria (a Simon & Schuster imprint who’s seemingly buying every popular self-published novel) purchased Slammed and reissued it, my curiosity resurfaced. However, I tend to shy away from self-published books* unless they’re by an author I’m familiar with or it’s a book that’s been recommended by a reader whose taste I trust. A.I was curious about Colleen Hoover’s Slammed after I saw Tammara Webber (whose book Easy, I very much enjoyed) raving about it and then it subsequently landed on the ebook bestseller list.

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But that's always easy to say and hard to do and along the way they will discover all the reasons why they need each other. But when a shocking revelation brings to light all the reasons they can't be together, they must fight their feelings for one another and the quick bond they had formed. They feel a connection almost immediately and when Will introduces Lake to the wonderful world of slam poetry she gets to see him for who he truly is, through his poems and performances he can show her how he is really feeling. They are alike in more ways than one, both experiencing painful losses and dealing with grief, both older than their years and both have a love for the band The Avett Brothers. But when she arrives in Michigan and meets her new neighbour, the rather attractive Will Cooper, she meets someone who might just understand how she feels. Layken is less than happy to be leaving her life behind, the home she grew up in with her father, the place that helps her remember him and the times they had together. So when her mother gets offered a higher paid job by an old school friend she takes it even if it means moving the family from Texas to Michigan. The sudden death of Layken's father put not only emotional strain on her family but also financial.

Slammed by colleen hoover summary