Losing Hope…Where do I begin? I love this book. I do. Hopeless is one of my all-time favorite books in the history of forever. It is that good. You know what? Losing Hope is now one of my all-time favorite books in the history of forever too…possibly even higher on my favorite list than Hopeless. Yep, it’s THAT good.
I loved Dean Holder in Hopeless but I fell in love with him in Losing Hope. Reading Losing Hope through the eyes of Holder brought about a new depth to this story—a depth that I don’t think I can effectively convey in words. Losing Hope is unbelievably good.
Something we didn’t see and we didn’t know in Hopeless was that Holder was writing letters to his dead sister, Les. It gutted me every single time he wrote to her. Every. Single. Time.
Maybe…and I hate to think this. But maybe I didn’t know you. I thought I did, but I didn’t. I don’t think I knew you at all. I knew the girl who cried at night. I knew the girl who smiled in pictures. But I didn’t know the girl that linked that smile with those tears, I have no idea why you flashed fake smiles, but cried real tears. When a guy loves a girl, especially his sister, he’s supposed to know what makes her smile and what makes her cry.
Holder wrote things like that time and time again. Each entry made me love him even more and made my heart break for him over and over again. While it was great getting an insight as to what was going on in Holder’s mind with regard to his sister, it was even more gratifying to see his inner monologue regarding Sky.
I’m pretty sure it’s too soon to love her, but shit. She’s got to stop doing and saying these unexpected things that make me want to fast-forward whatever’s going on between us. Because I want to kiss her and make love to her and marry her and make her have my babies and I want it to happen tonight.
Again, I loved Holder in Hopeless but I fell in love with him in Losing Hope. Losing Hope doesn’t just make you fall more in love with Holder, it makes you fall more in love with this story. I expected Losing Hope to merely compliment Hopeless but instead, it far exceeded my expectations. It doesn’t simply compliment Hopeless, it adds nuances to the story that I didn’t know were missing before I read it. Just when I thought Holder couldn’t be any more perfect, Colleen Hoover gifted us Losing Hope.
I don’t deserve her, I don’t deserve her understanding and I sure as hell don’t deserve the way she just made my heart feel. I laugh and take her in my arms, bringing my mouth to hers. “I live you, Sky,” I say against her lips. “I live you so much.” And as perfect as that word sounds, as perfectly as it describes the point we’re at, I know it’s a lie. I don’t just live her. I love her. I’ve loved her since we were kids.
Did you just read that? Did you?!?!?! Did you just fall in love with Dean too? See what I did there? Calling him Dean? Wait until you get to that part in Losing Hope…it is so worth it!!! I’m going on the record: In my opinion, Losing Hope is one of the best books written in the history of forever. My face hurt after I finished reading Losing Hope. My heart hurt after reading Losing Hope too. But do you know what the best part is? While Colleen Hoover takes you high and takes you low, you walk away from this book knowing that you just read something incredible.
If the definition of a book hangover is as follows: When you finish a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you are still living in the world of the book, I have a book hangover after finishing Losing Hope. I can’t live in a world where more Holder doesn’t exist. I need more! Do you hear me, Colleen? I need more! To that end, Buy Losing Hope!!! Read Losing Hope!!!! LOVE Losing Hope!!!!
Colleen lives in Texas with her husband and their three boys. She released her debut novel, SLAMMED, in January 2012 and the follow-up novel, POINT OF RETREAT, in February, 2012 both of which became NYT's bestsellers. In December, 2012, she published a standalone novel, HOPELESS, that went on to become a #1 NYT's bestseller.As a "Thank you" to her fans, she went on to write the male point of views of both SLAMMED and HOPELESS. THIS GIRL, (Will's pov plus a lot more) was released in April and LOSING HOPE will be released in July.
She is currently working on two standalone novels, UGLY LOVE and MAYBE SOMEDAY, both of which will be released in 2014.
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