This book completely touched my heart and really opened my eyes to the world of domestic abuse. Colleen’s “note from the author” at the end of the story about her mother is so heartbreaking, but shows what an incredible woman she is.

This is an amazing book wow.

This Book Made Me Laugh And Made Me Cry. I Felt What Adam Felt, I Felt What Owen Felt And I Felt What Auburn Felt. Took Me Only A Day To Read And From The First Page To The Last I Loved Every Word!! Besides Ugly Love This Is The Second Book Of Colleen's I Have Read.... I Wish This Didn't Have To End. Thank You!!

I'm not sure how Colleen Hoover seems to come up with the most amazing and memorable quotes, but she does every time. I'm sure you will notice my list of favorite quotes is the longest I've ever made. I even left some out because the list kept growing. Colleen's writing reminds me more of poetry or song lyrics than a novel. She invokes such strong emotions and feeling with her writing that I can only compare her to a very short list of authors.

I love how Colleen waited until the very last chapter to reveal certain events that happened years before and had unknowingly impacted Auburn's life both in the past and the present. Yes, these events COULD have been revealed in the beginning of the story, but I felt like the mystery throughout combined with the revelation at the end added so much more emotion with a larger impact.

I am slowly making my way through all of Colleen Hoover's books and as soon as I heard about Confess being made into a show for Verizon's Go90 app, I knew this had to be my next read.

Loved it make feel like you are there with them.

What a beautiful story. I’m not sure what I thought Confess would really be about but I loved how Owen, an artist, has a slot at his studio where people can walk by and leave anonymous confessions about anything they want. He uses these as inspiration for the art he creates, naming each piece with the confession. Owen finds a kinship with these confessions as he tries to cope with his own fractured past. Auburn finds herself living in a new city for very challenging reasons after the love of her life dies as a teenager. She needs another job and finds herself in front of Owen’s gallery where a help wanted sign is posted. It sort of feels like fate. We get to experience these two broken souls as they connect on that fateful night. With all the hurdles they each have to face, can they find a path to love? Will they let themselves realize that they deserve love? I loved every heart stopping moment of this incredible love story that also surprised me more than once with the wonderful twists and turns.

This book is amazing. I started reading it and could not put the book down, read it in one day.

I purchased the book and it keeps telling me error none of the pages will load.

This book was beautifully written and immediately had me engrossed. The amount of emotions this story evokes are amazing. I knew from the first page that I was going to love this and I'm so grateful that I picked it up by chance. It's such a beautiful story and I'm thrilled that it will grace my bookshelves forever!

Colleen Hoover is a fantastic author. Confess is the first book of hers that I read and I literally couldn't put it down. Within the next few days after finishing it I read 4 more of her books. I highly recommend!!

This story made me cry 😔 I feel so happy I ran into this book in the library ❤️ wow! Bravo Colleen! I would soooo love this book come to life! A movie 👌🏼❤️😊 I will definitely go to sleep thinking about this book! Excellent job👏🏼

She just continues to amaze me with her stories. They really pull at the heart strings.

Confess by Colleen Hoover is enchanting, caught me with every word I wanted to keep reading more and more of it, if you have the chance I would recommend reading the book!

I absolutely love every book I have read by Colleen Hoover but this one is by far my favorite....words can't even describe how beautiful this book is. All I can say is read it, just read it!

Great book!

I've read every single one of her books and they all blow me away in a different way! There is no writer that can compare! Absolutely loved this story! There's so much more I want to know! Maybe Someday and Ugly Love are still my favs by a small margin! I'm giving it a 4 star because of that and because I wish it could have been longer! Please never ever stop writing!!!

I Loved this book! It is so well written I couldn't put it down. The characters are so real and I loved the connection the characters had, even if Auburn wasn't completely aware of it... Owen is simply amazing. I plan to read ALL of her books. Truly an amazing author and I have read enough to know.

The story is so compelling that didn't want to stop reading and leave the characters. All the pieces didn't come together until the very end and when they did, it was beautiful.

Talk about a tear jerker!! This book had me balling my eyes out!! One of he best stories ever. Really made me believe in fate. It was just so unexpected. Love it!! Must read!!!

Wow this was awesome. Owen the troubled artist. Auburn appears to be his fate. His love for her just tears you apart. Her love for him has to build and grow. But their story is awesome. Great read.

Colleen you once wrote on FB that a person should continue writing until their story gets noticed and that you were very lucky. I have to agree. What you have many authors will never learn. I'm not sure it can be taught. We all learn to write in school just as most learn an instrument but in both cases I'm neither a writer nor a musician.Some people are blessed with talent. Colleen you are blessed with multiple talents. You are an amazing writer. An amazing poet. An amazing advice giver.

When you write you open my mind and eyes to a whole new world of possibilities. You make me a believer. When I read your books I do not think these are a work of fiction I think these are probably based on someone else's life.

I already feel the connection from the first few sentences in each one of your books. It's as if the whisper chill is running down my back at the way your words make me feel. Your words reach deep inside of me and create a world so different from what I currently live.

I love the mystery behind the characters. Only giving and sharing small pieces of themselves for another time. I love how Colleen uses the simplest of things that most people take for granted and use it in a way that is memorable. Such as holding hands, staring into ones eyes, breath on ones neck, tucking hair behind ones ear, and caging someone in with there arms.

The chapters switch back and forth between Owen and Auburn's POV. I love when authors do this. It gives instant perspective on how the other character is reacting to the situation. The story is separated into two parts.

The name of the book was a bit deceiving at first. I thought it was a story full of people's confessions. Instead the concept for confessions was so much better than I originally thought. I was blown away by the fate that brought Owen and Auburn together.

Colleen Hoover has a way of bringing something new to the book world. Like when she had the talent of singer/songwriter Griffin Peterson write a 7 song album that went with her book Maybe Someday. This is one of the many things I love about Colleen Hoover. She brings all these different disciplines of artistic abilities together. Writing is an art, just like painting and songwriting; bringing these different aspects of art together and supporting other artists is pretty amazing to me. These collaborations are beautifully done and Colleen Hoover is a pretty awesome trend setter. I would very much be in support of more authors taking part in collaborations such as these.

I love books that have a connection to the art world. For me, art is an extremely intimate and personal expression; I suppose as an artist myself I find a connection in characters that are artists. Owen Gentry is an artist that beautifully paints the confessions of others. Although, I should say that the artist Danny O'Connor's paintings are beautiful. Within the book you will find images of paintings mentioned in the book; adding a unique and intimate element to the story.

I was able to create a personal connection with Auburn that caused me to understand so very much of what it was she was feeling. The situation she finds herself in is one that she never could have predicted or been prepared for. She is a young woman doing all that she can to be the best person she can for those she loves. As for Owen, he is doing the same thing. Protecting those he loves. The two of them realize that while protecting and doing everything they can for everyone else, they have sacrificed so much of themselves. They both begin to contemplate just how much of themselves they have given up, and when to say enough is enough. They find strength and courage in each other that they didn't have before and start to fight for a future that is far better than what they have been living.

Writing is an art. An author "paints" a story for her readers, only she uses words instead of the stokes of a paintbrush. Slowly the colors are added, the mood is set, and the final product begins to take form. A completed picture that slowly comes together piece by piece, word by word. Confess paints a story of loss, heartbreak, fear, strength and hope. I read these pages and watched the story of Owen and Auburn come together, both their individual stories and the story they write together. At times there were paint strokes I didn't see coming and it would change the picture in my mind from light to dark. It broke my heart, but there was still beauty to be found beneath the sadness.

I really really wanted to have an epilogue that was set a bit in the future just to tie off a couple of the secondary loose ends. I wanted to be able to paint that final picture of happiness in my mind.

I love all the paintings and the artist's interpretation of other people's inner most emotion. From Slammed to Confess, I've read every single book of Colleen Hoover and this is one of my favorite!

Review originally posted on Reading Books Like a Boss

I jumped at the chance to read Confess when I saw it features an artist hero. Secrets, omission, and a little bit of fate are intertwined in this new adult romance novel about two people with pasts that they don't want to reveal to anyone. But they eventually reveal to each other, leaving the consequences scattered on the floor. While I thought this book was entertaining, it wasn't my favorite book by Colleen Hoover. I didn't get that "oh my goodness I have to know what happens next" that I look for when reading a really captivating book.

I will say that the prologue to this book was super, duper sad. I think that may have been my favorite part of the book, actually. After moving from Texas from Oregon, Auburn Reed is starting over on her own. She serendipitously sees a "Help Wanted" sign at a local art gallery called Confess owned by Owen Gentry. The two have an instant connection and there is some mysterious magnetism drawing them together. Little is revealed about their pasts. All we know is Auburn visited an attorney in chapter one (for what?) and Own knows Auburn from long ago (what the what?). After a few hours together, they don't want the night to end.

I started out really liking this book, but as I continued to read, I just got a little bored. Nothing was really happening with their relationship, not much was happening plot-wise. Confess lacked the same sort of spark that some of her other books had in the past. One thing I really like about Colleen Hoover's books is that her heroes are never super alpha, which aren't always my favorite type. Owen was a sweet guy whose past mistakes catch up with him.

The intensity of Auburn and Owen's relationship was way too fast-paced for me. Hoover was trying to sell me an instant attraction/connection between the hero and heroine, and while they had chemistry, I didn't truly feel their love connection. After a few hours together, both were nearly weeping at the fact that they had to part. I thought that maybe would be explained away later and tie into the fact that Owen knew Auburn from the past. Hoover has made this instant attraction work in past novels, but here something was lacking in Confess for the reader to believe it. I wanted more background for both of them, more development in terms of their relationship, before we dove into "I can't wait to see you again" territory.

2 stars

* I received an advanced copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful. Unlike anything I've ever read. Once again, Colleen Hoover delivers!

Colleen Hoover has done it again! Another amazing 5 star read. Absolutely loved it!

Total page turner! Had to sneak away from work a couple times just to keep reading. Loved the characters. I was so sad when it ended. I need more....

I love the story 😍😭

Thank you Colleen Hoover 💗

Literally one word, PERFECTION 💖

I freaking loved it !!! 😍😍👌🏽

Honestly one of the best books I have ever read. Definitely a must read. I was laughing , then I was crying. It always kept me interested. An AMAZING ending too. I'm so glad I read the whole thing.

I loved this book! Colleen Hoover is with out a doubt one of my favorite authors. I always feel so much when I read her stories. I literally just finished this book and applauded, out loud. Simply amazing! While the story was a bit slow in the beginning for me, once Owen and Auburn really started connecting after her birthday, the story just took off. I really loved Owen and Auburn together! And the last three chapters really touched my heart. Honestly the whole Part 2 was just amazing and i couldn't put it down! And the art work was incredible. I loved the confession (even though some of them were so sad). I loved how Owen started is art studio Confess and the meaning behind it. Colleen Hoover came up with such a simple but unique idea and it made this book so much better. While this wasn't my favorite CoHo book, it is by far one of the best books i've ever read. <3

I've read every one of Colleen Hoovers Books. She has an amazing way of bringing the characters together and always with a twist. This was another fantastic book. You'll cry at the beginning, smile during the middle and cry again at the end. A great book. look forward to her next one,

I kept hearing mixed reviews of Confess but I personally enjoyed this story. Even though I agree with some who thought Owen and Auburn largely lacked the chemistry that Colleen's characters typically possess, the story was unique but definitely darker than her previous books. It held my interest and was just heartwrenching to read at times. It's refreshing to see an author collaborate with artists to bring a fresh perspective and deliver a new reading experience. I love the way she infused original art into the story much like what she did with music in Maybe Someday. The artwork was just beautiful! Couple that with all those confessions and you have the twists she is known and loved for!

Omg I so love Owen Mason Gentry or O.M.G Sorry Will, Dean, Ridge, & Miles. I thought Maybe Someday was a special one of a kind book with the music tied in, but OH.MY.GOSH Confess blew Maybe Someday away!!! Confess was beautifully done with the Confessions & the Paintings. Well done Colleen!!!! Incredible, incredible, incredible book!!!! Everyone should experience this book & paintings!!!! Omg amazing story!!!!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.

At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry.

For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.

To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.

Wow. A book with a love story, but it actually had a strong story to go with it. So many books are all the same. Boy meet girl, they fall in love, the end. This was different from so many I chose to ready in past weeks, months.

I feel like I got what I paid for. I wasn't disappointed and didn't feel like I wasted my time.

Loved that this was a stand alone book with no cliff hanger, tired of the series books and having to wait for them!

Good job Colleen Hoover! Keep them coming!!

Just when I thought I couldn't love Coleen Hoover's books any more than I do, she comes out with Confess. I love, love, love the characters the writing and the twists. Thank you for sharing your gift!

OMG!!! Beautiful story!!!

Truly amazing (as always)! A beautiful story made that much more real through the brave confessions of others and the gorgeous, original art work. Thank you Colleen...I am in awe of you...your stories touch my heart each and every time I read them.

every chapter repeated itself untill the last 3, slow, didnt get intersting till the end

wish i can get my 8 bucks back

I was getting very nervous. The end of the story was coming and the happy ending didn't seem possible. I never could have guessed or foreseen the end. Incredible. Do yourself a favor and read it, but don't read ahead.

I am speechless....words like Amazing!, Fantastic! and Marvelous! come to mind.....yet they still do not seem to do Confess justice.

I started the book a few days after its release because I didn't want it to end. Like all of Colleen's books I anticipate them for months and never want them to be over. You can never read a book for the first time again and its always a special experience. Colleen's books stick with me and Confess was no different. In fact it is one of my favorite books of all time.

Buying Colleen's books is always money well spent. She takes me into the book, I fall in love with the characters, I laugh, and I cry.

Buy Confess....you won't be disappointed.

While a great idea for a plot, I found the book to read more like a teenage heart throb trilogy, which reminded me of the Twilight series. The idea behind the confessions was a great one. The paintings were gorgeous, but the characters and plot were predictable, rather than thrilling. Parts of the book even got a little bit annoying with all of the swooning and back-and-forth thinking the main character does. It wasn't an awful book, but I just didn't find a lot of depth to it. It would be fine for a light hearted summers day reading.

I soaked in every chapter. And I shake my head in awe and amazement. When I wasn't reading the book, I was reminiscing the scenes in my mind and what the next chapter would bring. Colleen is brilliant and talented! Empty your own penny jar because it's worth every single cent! OMG....sigh

...not gonna lie, gets a little tedious in parts, but be patient and you'll be glad you were.

Sweet, sometimes a little scary, a little sad but ultimately worthwhile.

Can't say enough about this book! Still thinking about it the day after reading it:)

Great book by a wonderful author. I read it in two days (would have been one if I let myself) it was so good. I couldn't put it down. Auburn and Owen have a true connection, and Colleens choice of words makes you feel like you personally know the characters. The confessions in the book were a great additive. I wish I could read more of them!

A wonderful story of young love between old souls. This is such a fresh story line and combining it with real art that we can admire along with the story made the book that much better. Once again, I am in book love with another of Hoovers' book boys!

I loved this book so much! I laughed, I cried, I couldn't put it down. I was so tense at times to see what would happen that I couldn't wait to get to the end, but at the same time I never wanted it to end. I know it will be added to the list of books that I could read over and over! Thank you for such a great book!

OMG : ) This book is a was amazing! Original storyline, loveable characters, so well written. Colleen Hoover gets better and better with each book she writes, this is her best yet!

Loved this story. Had me crying two pages in but also found lots of joy and happiness as I read further. What a way to wrap it up. OMG!! Coleen's stories really get me involved in the characters and I want to know more...