Reminders of Him

Since her literary debut in 2011 (she published her first novel at her own expense), Colleen Hoover has become one of the most prolific and commercially successful romance novelists of the new millennium. A perennial presence on both The New York Times and Amazon best seller lists, Hoover, or CoHo as her fans know her, redefined the romance genre by introducing complex characters who face profound emotional dilemmas. Some of her most well-known novels include It Ends With Us (2016), It Starts With Us (2022), Verity (2021), Reminders of Him (2022), and her debut novel, Slammed (2012).

Reminders of Him (2022) is at once a conventional romance and a reimagination of the genre. Kenna Rowan, age 26, returns to her hometown near Denver after being in prison for five years. She is determined to have a relationship with her four-year-old daughter, Diem Landry. The story offers elements of the romance genre: the hesitant movement toward new love by those wounded by previous relationships, and the affirmation of hope as characters find their way to new beginnings through friends and family.