Her consequent actions were infuriating, but you know what? I completely understood where she was coming from. Lake really upset me after Vaughn broke up the dinner at Will’s house. Fair enough, he may as well have really been planning on telling her after their 3-day getaway, but we won’t ever know. Will may not have been in love with Vaughn any more, but he owed it to Lake to be honest and upfront. Not just “I didn’t think it was important”. I always tell myself that if you have something to hide, there’s gotta be a reason for it. And poor Will, did he really think that hiding Vaughn’s reappearance in his life would help his precarious relationship with Lake any? Nope. I hated Vaughn on the spot, that manipulative, coy bitch. To the first plot-hurdle: Vaughn and Reece. The second plot twist that happens in the latter part of the book involves a serious car accident in the snow that leaves Eddie (who is sixteen weeks pregnant) and Will hurt and Lake severely injured in hospital. Reece, Will’s best friend of ten-ish years also makes an appearance. So, PoR has two plot twists – the first behind Vaughn, Will’s blast from the past and the ensuing chaos she instigates when they end up having classes together in college. We have the same wonderful cast with some bright new additions (Kiersten and her mother Sherry in particular) and some faces from Will’s past that are not so bright and welcome. Point of Retreat follows on more than a year after the end of Slammed and we see Lake and Will’s relationship evolve around conflict that neither of them has control over. As soon as I finished Slammed, I literally opened up the next book and dove right into it.

I know how much I love a book series when I simply must read the next installment right after I’ve finished the first.

Colleen hoover point of retreat series