Maybe Not: A Novella (2) (Maybe Someday) Paperback – December 22, 2015

Siiigh. I needed this book. For me, reading a book by Colleen Hoover is a bit… therapeutic, in a way. Her books take me out of any book funk I’m in and I always have the time of my life reading them, no matter how long or how short those books are. And the 129 pages of Maybe Not were pretty much absolute perfection. I haven’t laughed so hard because of a book as I have for Maybe Not in ages. I loved every page and every word of this book! Colleen Hoover never disappoints, and this surprise novella only cements her as my all-time favorite author.Okay, first off, can I just say how HAPPY I am that we didn’t have to wait for a whole three and a half months to get a new book from Colleen Hoover!? Maybe Not is a novella, but still. I’m just so happy and thankful to have something new from this amazeballs author. And what’s better than something new from Colleen Hoover? Something new ABOUT WARREN from Maybe Someday!!! Maybe Someday was easily one of my favorite reads of the year, and I absolutely loved Warren in it. But now, after reading his novella in his POV? I fell even more in love with him. I want him to be my best friend AND I want to steal him away from Bridgette. Colleen Hoover’s heroes will be the death of me, I swear.Maybe Not starts prior to the beginning of Maybe Someday, when Warren and Ridge get a new roommate who’s not exactly the nicest of people. Bridgette is mean and gives no f***s whatsoever, and Warren is reluctantly attracted and intrigued."I look away from her. I hate that she’s hot. I hate that she’s a brunette, because I really like her long, light brown hair and the way it’s pulled back, all messy and s***.Dammit!"All Warren and Bridgette do is fight, prank, and insult each other, which makes for some lovely sexual tension."She licks her bottom lip, and I have to grip the couch cushion to keep myself from attacking that mouth. Her eyes are focused intensely on mine, and we’re both breathing so heavily from our verbal attacks, I can taste her breath on my lips.“I hate you,” she says through clenched teeth.“I hated you first,” I hiss back."So yeah, their fights aren’t exactly the most mature of things, but I loved every single one of their interactions. Warren is already a funny guy (oh my god, I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I think Warren might even be funnier than Daniel from Finding Cinderella…), but Bridgette and Warren are HILARIOUS together! I laughed so, so hard because of these two and how much they hate how much they want each other.Warren and Bridgette end up falling into bed with each other. Over and over and over again. And slowly, those sexual intimacies lead to other, deeper kinds of intimacies that Bridgette is very unwilling to give Warren. But Warren sees Bridgette for more than the bitchy front she puts up, and he breaks down those walls around her heart."She’s so confusing. She’s so frustrating. She’s so d*** unpredictable.She’s nothing I’ve ever wanted in a girl. And absolutely everything I need."I loved this book. Colleen Hoover has a way of creating characters that latch right on to your heart. I smiled so much because of Warren and Bridgette – and also because we also get to see Ridge, Sydney, Maggie, and Brennan. So Colleen Hoover fans, Maybe Someday fans, you definitely do NOT want to miss this special novella. It’ll have you laughing until you cry, and smiling until you just can’t stop.

In Maybe Not, we get Warren's point of view of everything that happens, and while I really enjoyed Warren in Maybe Someday, I found that I enjoyed him a little less when I was basically inside his head. I think he comes from a good place most of the time, but he also overstepped some boundaries that really ought not to be overstepped. Bridgette gained a lot of depth through his eyes, and that was a very nice change.Bridgette was depicted only as a 'bitch' in the prior book, however, she truly had many reasons for the way she was acting with her roommates! She has had a hard life, living in foster care, finding a lost sister who was still living with her mom, and thinking she had found two brothers before she moved in with Warren and Ridge. It was good to see where she was coming from, and why Warren thought she was much more than the tough and scratchy facade she put up to fool everybody else as to her inner hurt.Because she was pushing everyone away from her, including Warren, it was a big surprise to me when they hooked up! Even more so when she made sure Warren had his pleasure, then just left him there before she went back to her own room. Then, the thing I had trouble digesting happened, too... Because Warren followed her in order to make sure she got her pleasure too - whether she really wanted it or not. At first, she even slapped him, but he did not take no for an answer. And to me, no always, ever single time, means no! This is also where I think that Warren really did come from a good place, because he wanted to share the pleasure with her, but he did not really listen to her wants just then, and kind of continued until she 'gave in'. I don't think a girl should ever have to give in! The fact that Warren truly only wanted to give her something back made things better for Bridgette, though. She had never felt like she deserved any kind of pleasure, and she had never loved anyone, nor felt as if anybody loved her.As Maybe Not continued, Bridgette did change quite a bit when she was with Warren, even if she continued to be her prickly self when she was with other people. More gritty than other CoHo stories, I ended up enjoying this story, but I did feel like I had to take a star off because of Warren's actions. Written in first person POV from Warren's perspective, the present tense also helped me understand from the get-go that things might work out better than it seemed that they would at the beginning of the story.

Ummmm this book is the most I have read of Colleen’s’ that involved mostly “intimacy “ I was very surprised and even wondered um are we not going to read another time ? Laughing as writing that but oh well. Of course happy the story ended with love in the end .

I loved all of this series . Pretty much enjoy all of Colleen Hoover books.