Hopeless
Release Date: 12/19/12
391 pages
Summary from Goodreads:
Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…
That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.
Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.
That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.
Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.
***Warning, this is my attempt at a review. It won’t be pretty***
“It’s real, Six. You can’t get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It’s the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.”
I read this book the first couple days of January and I still can’t properly put into words what I feel about this book. Every time I took a moment to even attempt to write this review, my mind went blank. But no matter how long ago I read this book, it feels like I just read it yesterday because it was that powerful that I still can’t stop thinking about it. I may have also encouraged persuaded bullied other people to read it because I just want everyone to be able to experience this story. To say that I loved this book would be a severe understatement. To even say this is one of the best books I have ever read would be another understatement. The story of Sky and Holder is tragic, heart breaking, and highly emotional. It is also one of the best love stories I have ever read. Like Slammed and Point of Retreat, the summaries from Goodreads do NOT do this book any justice. At all! Just trust me when I say that this book is a MUST.
From their first encounter, the best way to describe Sky and Holder is intense! Everything about them is intense: their feelings, their kisses, and their fights. Their relationship is complicated (another understatement). It starts off slow, shifts to fast, stops, speeds up, then full throttle rollercoaster. I loved the banter between Sky and Holder. They weren’t expressing their feelings all the time but they had their own special way of letting each other (and us) know that they are crazy about each other which made it all the more real and special. Examples of their banter:
“You need a hair cut,” I blurt out. “Really bad. It gets in your eyes and you squint and you’re constantly moving it out of the way like you’re Justin Bieber and it’s really distracting.”
He fingers his hair with his hand and frowns, then falls back onto the bed.
“Man. That really hurt.”
or
I'm really dreading spending all day with you. This doesn’t sound like fun at all. Also, your sundress is really unflattering and way too summery, but you should definitely keep it on.
Just when it seems like Sky and Holder have conquered all their problems and I’m thinking: “Wow, this is an amazing love story” BAM! Huge plot twist in the story that I NEVER saw coming! Then, when we are finally adjusting and getting over the shock of that plot twist and your thinking: “Wow, this is a really amazing story. Period.” Double-BAM!! This story freaking broke me apart and made my heart hurt so much. But the ending also left me feeling very happy. Has my heart recovered from this story? Nope, but I loved every single second of this book. Even the ones the really painful ones. Sky and Holder’s problems don’t magically get fixed by the end of the book and the ending is not an unrealistic happily ever after. It is happy, but is it also a realistic ending which I loved. Hopeless is a powerful story that you WON’T want to miss out on. A story and characters that will stay with for a very long time. Although the love story is amazing, this is so much more than just that. Oh, and if you are looking for swoon worthy ladies, look no further than Dean Holder. He is one of the most complicated characters I’ve and one of my favorites. I would also like to mention that Hopeless has the title of best non-first kiss EVER! For those of you who have already read Hopeless, click HERE to read this scene from Holder’s POV. (Spoilers for those of you who haven’t read Hopeless yet)
5 out of 5 stars!
(If my rating system had more stars, I would give them all to this book)
Some of my favorite non-spoiler quotes from Hopeless:
-I need to regain my bearings. Somehow, in the course of sixty seconds, this guy has managed to swoon me, then terrify the hell out of me.
-“Let me inform you of something,” he says in a low voice. “The moment my lips touch yours, it will be your first kiss. Because if you’ve never felt anything when someone’s kissed you, then no one’s ever really kissed you. Not the way I plan on kissing you.”
-I know that firsts don’t matter with him. He could kiss me for the first time, or the twentieth time, or the millionth time and I wouldn’t care if it was a first or not, because I’m pretty sure we just broke the record for the best first kiss in the history of first kisses - without even kissing.
- The way he looks at me makes me feel…I try to search for an adjective to follow up that thought, but I can’t find one. He just makes me feel. He’s the only boy that’s ever cared whether or not I’m feeling anything at all, and for that alone, I let him steal another small piece of my heart. But it doesn’t feel like enough, because I unexpectedly want to give it all to him.
(There are wwaaaay more but I don’t wanna spoil anything)
About the Author
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I'm addicted to diet pepsi and could tell you in a taste-test which restaurant it came from. It's a serious addiction, I tell you.
I get stoked whenever I get a message from goodreads saying I have a new friend request...so request me, dangit!
If you want to know when I have new books out or just want to be inundated by random, pointless blog posts, follow me at www.colleenhoover.com
Avoid my Twitter at all cost. It's propaganda.
Great review! This sounds pretty intense, and it's the first time I've heard of this title but I'm intrigued by the story, and I'm glad you enjoyed it so much!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! Going in my favorites pile for sure. <3
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