New Adult Book Club discussion

Never Never by Colleen Hoover is our non-contemporary Monthly read for February.

Synopsis:

Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen.
Complete strangers since this morning.
He'll do anything to remember. She'll do anything to forget.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Initial thoughts:
I don't know about anyone else here, but are you not just pulled in by this summary. How many books have a summary this short, but yet pulls so many people in? Not many! A lot of people are turned off by not knowing what they're getting into. In this case, it's just so grabbing.

Spoilers ahead--Proceed with caution!

Chapter Eleven
Nothing much happens, a few jokes as they drive for Bourbon Street. I feel like it's a bridging chapter. Kinda boring. She tells Silas about The Shrimp, and how she thinks this girl knows something.

Any other thoughts on this?

Chapter Twelve
As they walk, they discover that she has a tattoo of a tree below her neck. And he has a strand of black pearls tattooed on his back.

After googling, they learn the tree is from the Greek meaning of Silas--so she got a symbol of his name. And her middle name, Margaret, comes from the Greek term meaning pearl.

More feelings come out between the two of them.

They go to a tarot reader who, with the cards, tells them they have experienced a loss of sorts, someone was enslaving them in the past and that their future holds destruction.

Interesting. Any other thoughts on this?

Chapter Thirteen
They run into Amy who says she's surprised to see them after last week. Silas punched a guy and flipped over a few tables. The guy turned out to be Brian's father. After the man said he's giving Charlie a job because she's "Brian's girl", Silas got mad.

They kissed, Charlie got mad and went home, insisting they shouldn't be together.

Chapter Fourteen
Silas gets a call and learns that no one knows where Charlie is. Her phone was left in his car. He and Landon go looking through the school. Her sister runs up to him and asks if he knows where she is. Silas goes to her house to check and busrts in to check the entire place, but her mother demands that he leaves.

He opens the letter he took and reads it. It's addressed to both of them...signed by both of them. It states that if they're reading this, then they don't remember anything and to trust and keep reading. The first two pages are bios. The third page says they'r making copies of this letter. The fourth says "it appears to have happened at the same time of day, 48 hours later." So every 48 hours they lose their memories on their lives. The original letters are safe where no one can find them.

The last page is blank, and he realizes 48 hours from the last timed letter is up in three hours. So he starts writing again. HE writes about everything they have learned so far--The Shrimp, the tattoes, her father in jail, etc. And that Charlie is missing.

And that's it! That's how it ends.

Overall thought on the book? The letters?


What are you suspicions about book 2?
I think that the 48 hours will be up, and Silas will once again wake up with no recollection. Charlie will do the same, but she'll do it off wherever she is. so when Silas goes to school, people ask where she is, meanwhile he has no clue who this girl is.

I love Colleen Hoover's books, and this one was really good. I love the mystery going on, and look forward to part 2, but this is nothing in my opinion compared to her other books.