Title: Hopeless
Author: Colleen Hoover
Series or Stand Alone: Stand Alone
Pages: 391 (ebook)
Publisher: self published
Date Published: December 19th 2012
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Abuse, Drama (and lots of it), Contemporary
(Description of book from Goodreads.com)
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.
Part 1 of My Thoughts (Spoiler Free)
I've
debated for quite a while on how to rate this book. Hopeless was not
a bad book per se and kept me entertained for a while, but I guess a
few things rubbed me the wrong way.
Like many others, I got something that I wasn't expecting. I started reading this book with the idea that this was a some what light-hearted romance. Which is true, but there's also a mystery embedded within the plot.
The book would have been great but I felt that the plot was overly dramatic and a few things weren't necessary. I'm pretty sure it was the overly dramatic plot that kind of made me not like the book.
I've read Colleen Hoover's Slammed Series and I'm not really a fan of those either for the same reason: the overly dramatic plot. However, the plots in Slammed and Point of Retreat were no where near as dramatic as the plot in Hopeless and the plots in the Slammed series were a bit more believable.
Like many others, I got something that I wasn't expecting. I started reading this book with the idea that this was a some what light-hearted romance. Which is true, but there's also a mystery embedded within the plot.
The book would have been great but I felt that the plot was overly dramatic and a few things weren't necessary. I'm pretty sure it was the overly dramatic plot that kind of made me not like the book.
I've read Colleen Hoover's Slammed Series and I'm not really a fan of those either for the same reason: the overly dramatic plot. However, the plots in Slammed and Point of Retreat were no where near as dramatic as the plot in Hopeless and the plots in the Slammed series were a bit more believable.
I wasn't crazy about any of the characters and didn't particularly enjoy reading about them. Sky was a rather ordinary teenager and Holder was totally whipped by Sky.
On a separate note, I'm surprised by how little Sky and Holder have to school wise. I get that Sky doesn't have access to the internet or TV, so she probably has time to do her homework and such after school. However, she (and Holder) seem to have a lot of time on their hands to kill and leave town for a couple of days. They're seniors and don't seem to get much homework. My school's semestered, I get 4 classes a day, and I do homework from the time I get home to late in the night. Not to mention, if I decided to skip town for a few days, it would take forever to completely catch up. I don't know, maybe I'm being weird and picky (probably), but I always notice how teenagers in books never seem to have any homework to do (especially compared to my own life). Sky and Holder are seniors (correct me if I'm wrong) and I remember being 16, in my junior year of high school, and staying up late until midnight - 2 in the morning to finish assignments and homework (and I didn't goof off either!).
Anyways, I think I've spent long enough being crazy and talking about that.
On a separate note, I'm surprised by how little Sky and Holder have to school wise. I get that Sky doesn't have access to the internet or TV, so she probably has time to do her homework and such after school. However, she (and Holder) seem to have a lot of time on their hands to kill and leave town for a couple of days. They're seniors and don't seem to get much homework. My school's semestered, I get 4 classes a day, and I do homework from the time I get home to late in the night. Not to mention, if I decided to skip town for a few days, it would take forever to completely catch up. I don't know, maybe I'm being weird and picky (probably), but I always notice how teenagers in books never seem to have any homework to do (especially compared to my own life). Sky and Holder are seniors (correct me if I'm wrong) and I remember being 16, in my junior year of high school, and staying up late until midnight - 2 in the morning to finish assignments and homework (and I didn't goof off either!).
Anyways, I think I've spent long enough being crazy and talking about that.
Part 2 of My Thoughts (With Spoilers)
It
turns out that Sky Davis was abducted as a kid and her real name
isn't even Sky. When I got to that point in the book, I thought,
"Wow, what a great plot twist. Definitely did not see that
coming." Then, there was another twist and it turns out that Sky
was abducted by her aunt because Sky was molested by her father when
she was younger. So I thought, "Okay, seems like something like
that could happen...and that explains why she was abducted."
Then Sky and Holder decide to skip town and that leds her to
confronting her father. The really dramatic part happens when Sky`s
father commits suicide. I mean, was it really not enough that she was
abducted as a kid and was molested?
My Rating: 2.5/5
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