Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover Series: Maybe #1
Publisher: Atria Books on March 18, 2014
Genres: Contemporary Romance, New Adult
Pages: 385
Format: eBook
Source: Purchased
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At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her—and she’s forced to decide what her next move should be.
Soon, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening to the passionate way he plays his guitar every evening out on his balcony. And there’s something about Sydney that Ridge can’t ignore, either. They soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one.
A passionate tale of friendship, betrayal, and romance, Maybe Someday will immerse readers in Sydney’s tumultuous world from the very first page.
At A Glance
Freaking amazeballs!
The Good
Hoover just has this way of writing that sucks you in. Her books are different. They aren’t perfect love stories. She gives us flawed characters, effed up situations, and impossible decisions. Maybe Someday ripped my heart to shreds. It seemed like there were no right choices for Sydney and Ridge. They were doomed from the start.
When Sydney finds out her longtime boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend and roommate, she has no choice but to move in with her hot neighbor who’s guitar music calls to her. While nursing her broken heart, she can’t help but slowly fall for Ridge as they make beautiful music together, literally. Sucks he has a girlfriend!
Ridge is something special. I have never seen a protagonist with his special…condition. That’s all I’ll say about that. Ridge has an amazing girlfriend that he loves deeply. Sydney starts out as a friend he wants to help out while she helps him with writing lyrics to his music, but feelings grow even as he denies them for the sake of his relationship.
Ridge and Sydney felt like genuine, realistic characters. They were not perfect by any means, and they make many bad decisions, but they always mean well.
How the hell can someone be in love with two people? So not fair to any party. And what’s the right choice there? Answer: there is none. It’s impossible to choose between two loves of your life, but that’s the situation Ridge is in. Sydney and Ridge wanted to just stay friends, but sometimes the heart is an asshole and doesn’t care about your best laid plans.
I loved almost every inch of this story. It’s kinda sad and depressing for the majority of it, but it’s all worth it. I didn’t think Hoover could make the cheating concept feel okay with me but the way she dealt with it was realistic and well done. I was good with how it all ended.
The Bad
The ending was a little too fast for me, but it was Ridge’s reactions to certain situations that really bugged me. I loved Ridge, so I was disappointed when he hurt Sydney so many times. I like a flawed character but assholeness from a good guy is no fun.
The Snuggly
There is a whole lot of sexual tension throughout the book but very little sex, which was fine with me. Nothing super hot going on here.
Final Thoughts
Maybe Someday blew me away. It had a lot of heartbreak and messed up situations but it worked out in the end. Relationships aren’t perfect and neither are people, and Hoover makes us okay with that. Highly recommended.
Quotes
“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”
“I kiss her every way I can possibly kiss her, because I plan on loving her every way I can possibly love her. Every single time we refused to cave in to our feelings in the past makes this kiss completely worth the sacrifices.”
Lekeisha
I think I’ll try slammed first, for my solo CoHo read. Though, all of her books are very well talked about. Great review!
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
Slammed was amazing too!
kindlemom1
Dang it, I still need to read this one! I need to push it up that mountain of a pile that I have.
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
Have you read her other books? So good.
Christy
Dude, I was literally holding my breath when I clicked on this in my email. I don’t know what I would’ve done if you hadn’t liked it. lol – seriously, I would’ve been one sad puppy.
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
LOL, probably disown me as your bloggy friend. I know how you are. 😀
Braine Talk Supe
I am scared/intimidated to read CHoover. She’s the Queen of Angst! I don’t know if I can handle the drama and the feels! It’s great that you loved it though
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
So much angst!!!! You gotta be in the mood for it, that is for sure.
Brandi Breathes Books
Genuine and realistic characters sounds great
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
🙂 you should try it.
Grace MyBookSnack
I felt the same way about Ridge when I read this (listened to the audiobook). Glad to see you loved this one. 🙂
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
Oh Ridge. I loved him so much but jeeze, way to break a girls heart over and over again.
Melissa (Books and Things)
I still need to read a book by this author! I will put this one on my wishlist. Hm… maybe I just need to add the author to that list. 😀
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
Yay! All of her books are great.
Kristin
ooooo this sounds so good but I’m not a fan of love triangles. But you and I like the same books so I feel like I need to give this a shot. >.<
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
Yeah, love triangles suck but this one felt different.
Jaclyn Canada
I really don’t like cheating story lines. If she got you to be ok with it, then it must be a well-written story. So glad you enjoyed!
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
i know, me either. But there is something about this story that didn’t make it so bad.
Yani
I wanted to read EVERY CoHo books but the only book I have read was Finding Cinderella which was sooooo good! I just can’t dare to watch the price of those books.
Jennifer (Bad Bird Reads)
CoHo is pretty amazing.