Maybe someday

Romance

Print length: 370 pagesAtria Paperback, 2014

Description

Twenty-two-year-old college student Sydney must reconsider her future after discovering that her boyfriend has been unfaithful. Already shaken by that betrayal, she faces another complication when she finds herself drawn to Ridge, her mysterious neighbor. The attraction arrives at a moment when Sydney is deciding what to do next, placing new possibility alongside emotional uncertainty. Maybe Someday centers on this turning point: a young woman dealing with the consequences of infidelity while trying to understand an unexpected connection. Colleen Hoover’s novel follows Sydney as her choices about trust, change, and Ridge make an already difficult situation more complicated.

Reading profile

About this profile

Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Dialogue-driven · Direct

Pace

Moderate

Tone

Hopeful · Intimate · Melancholic · Romantic

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Relationships · Voice

Emotional intensity

4 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 3 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

Art and creativityFriendshipGuiltIdentityLoveTransformation

About Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is an American novelist whose career began with Slammed, written initially without plans for publication and later taken up by Atria Books. After earlier work in social work and teaching, she became known chiefly for romance and young adult fiction; in 2022, her books occupied six of the top ten places on the New York Times paperback fiction bestseller list. Her novels tend to be character-centered, conversational, and dialogue-driven, using intimate relationships to examine trust, autonomy, grief, guilt, and forgiveness. It Ends with Us places romantic attachment against domestic violence and a woman’s effort to establish limits, while Reminders of Him connects love with bereavement, punishment, motherhood, and the difficult prospect of rebuilding a life. Ugly Love and November 9 likewise begin with deliberately constrained arrangements, allowing concealed histories and changing expectations to pressure the bond. Hoover has also moved into suspense: Verity retains a romantic element but shifts toward a remote household, hidden writings, and mounting uncertainty.