It's heartbreaking and painstakingly beautiful. I love it and I really am not ready to let go of these characters. My only hope is to have a LONGER epilogue. Still, I highly recommend this book. The time has arrived for Livy Knight to move away to college and leave her overprotective dad behind. Whilst yes, Livy is excited and embracing life with clear goals, she’s also living like a free spirit in the waves, unconsciously looking for a man who’s just like her dad. With that, comes, danger, betrayal, violence and heartbreak. Does anything really phase her though? She may be feisty, slightly manic in behaviour and a complete free spirit, yet her heart is big and vulnerable, and in many respects, she reminded us of her aunt Jessica! So, when she meets the mysterious and menacing-looking Slade Wylder, she cannot stay away. She’s mesmerised, perhaps even a tad obsessed. She knows he harbours deep dark secrets, his disappearances haunts her, his whole persona is stand-off-ish. But she cannot look away, stay away or even ignore the depth of her connection with him. Is she scared of him -yes and no- is he an arsehole, a resounding yes, but the heart wants what it wants and we cannot blame Liv for that, ours wanted him too. The same can be said about the narrator’s developing knowledge of her own sexuality, providing a rare example of a book in which an LGBTQ+ character’s sexual identity is explored without being the only developed element of their personality. By the end of the novel, closing on a moment that is quietly, tragically hopeful, this nameless narrator is so familiar that it is difficult to let her go – like breaking up with someone you’re still in love with. This book here was one I was highly anticipating, and once it landed on my trust bible (my ipad) life as I knew it was turned off, I devoured it, I loved it, the amount of times I giggled were priceless. The amount of times I swooned were too many times to count. To say I loved this book is an understatement!! Every emotion was wrung out of me, a rollercoaster of feels which I never wanted to end.

The language was very similar to my writing style, which I appreciated. Easy to read, very fast-forward, easy to understand, and at the same time, it was beautiful. There were some curse words in there so be ready for that. Overall, great language. I would have appreciated a liiiitle more poetry in there, but I'm satisfied.Slade and Livy were really sweet together. I LOVED getting his POV. It was wonderful reading what he actually thought instead of that icy exterior. A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.” (David Nicholls, best-selling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow)

Having watched Hazel Hayes on YouTube now for countless years, I was really excited to hear she was writing her first novel, and this was just further heightened when I read the brief description of the book. I already knew I’d love it and get so much out of it, which I truly did. I also feel I know some parts of Hazel’s life from her videos, obviously not enough to properly know her, but just little snippets enough to identify elements of her within the main protagonist, which I wouldn’t usually be able to do from other, less well known authors. Evidently the main trait of these would be the Irishness of the character and the Irish setting of a large amount of the book, but also certain personality traits or experiences Hazel has described in vlogs. I’m assuming not everything in the novel was truthful, as it was a novel after all, but it was fun to see these elements throughout, even if some Irish tropes were lost on me a little. This author did a fabulous job giving us a little bit more of past amazing characters we LOVE and making us fall in love with the new characters. Hazel’s book is funny and moving and bleak and hopeful all at the same time . . . Like Bridget Jones and Sylvia Plath setting the world to rights over a supermarket vino” — Paul Neafcy, writer and author

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Wylder…I have a feeling you’re not going to like this…but I’m not going to be able to stop myself from doing it anyway.”

Out of Love will fill the gap that Normal People left in our heart . . . Trust us, this is the book of the summer' Evoke Unlike Holly Bourne’s The Places I've Cried in Public, I don’t think that the narrative style worked for this book. To be honest, I wasn’t able to sympathise with the main character here, which might have been my biggest problem. From the beginning, the reader knows that Theo is a horrible man, but, after finishing the book, the main character could have seen this from the beginning of their relationship. The more I read, the less I cared about their relationship. This book is completely driven by the protagonist. We get to know her and her priorities alongside understanding why her relationship with Theo ended. This book has important discussions on mental health and therapy, as our protagonist suffers from depression and anxiety You are nothing more than a bastard with the soul of Satan. A monster of the worst kind!" He brushed his middle finger across his bloodied lip before swiping his tongue along the cut. "This bastard with the soul of Satan, this monster of the worst kind… loves you."Whilst the main thread of the narrative is the course of a romantic love, in all its intricacies, the magnificence of Out of Love is in its weaving together of several forms of love. There is love between family: the relationship between the narrator and her mother is full of unconditional devotion, regardless of a struggle to entirely understand each other at times. They are slightly smudged reflections of one another.