Review: Hopeless #2: Losing Hope

Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover is the second book in the Hopeless series.

Where Hopeless was tragically beautiful, Losing Hope was beautifully tragic. Both books have a HEA (Happily Ever After) as they are essentially both the same story from different POV's (Points Of View).

In Losing Hope we get Holder's perspective. Who he was prior to and right after his sisters suicide, and what was happening with him when he first met Sky. To see what was going on inside the head of that beautiful specimen of man was a real treat.

Lacey's journal - the back pages... Well that was a real twist. When Holder finally manages to deal with that, to read the contents, the redemption he's granted is priceless.

If you loved Hopeless then you really owe it to yourself to get Holder's side of the tale. A pleasanter ear only slightly lee angst-filled as I already knew most of the details from the previous story and was prepared.

I love pop culture references in books...It may not be deliberate, but for me this is a Barney from How I Met Your Mother reference.

“Your logic terrifies me,” she says. “I sort of don’t find you attractive anymore.” 

Challenge accepted.

I slowly slide on top of her, careful to hold my weight up with my hands. If my body were to touch any part of hers right now, we’d already be moving on to seconds and thirds. “You sort of don’t find me attractive?” I say, staring straight down into her eyes. “That can also mean you sort of do find me attractive.”
-Holder & Sky

Finding Cinderella (Hopeless #2.5)

Goodreads Synopsis:

This novella is a companion novel to the Hopeless series, but can be read as a standalone.

A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love comes with conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.

When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales.

One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Daniel soon realizes the way he pretended to feel about Cinderella and the way he really feels about Six may not be so different after all. Especially when the two loves of his life end up being one in the same.



Unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.