Book Talk Reiew; Losing Hope

The Companion novel to Hopeless

 

 

 #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover held readers spellbound with her novel Hopeless, the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean Holder. With Holder’s help, Sky uncovered shocking family secrets and came to terms with memories and emotions that had left deep scars.

 Hopeless was Sky’s story. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the truth about Dean Holder.

 Haunted by the little girl he couldn’t save from imminent danger, Holder’s life has been overshadowed by feelings of guilt and remorse. He has never stopped searching for her, believing that finding her would bring him the peace he needs to move on. However, Holder could not have anticipated that he would be faced with even greater pain the moment they reconnect.

 In Losing Hope, Holder reveals the way in which the events of Sky’s youth affected him and his family, leading him to seek his own redemption in the act of saving her. But it is only in loving Sky that he can finally begin to heal himself.

 

 Losing Hope is Holder's POV of Hopeless but it is also so much more than that. 

 

 We don't just get Hopeless from Holder, we get that night from the year before Holder met Sky. The night that changed his life.

 We see what happened the night before that fateful turning point in Holder's life, we see how life was immediately after that. And we see what went on behind the scenes of Hopeless that we didn't know before.

 We see the struggle it is for Holder in wanting Sky to be Hope, in him not wanting her to be Hope. At first he thinks that Sky is. He has this overwhelming feeling that she is his lost childhood friend. But then on the other hand he hopes that she isn't because the truth will destroy her current life. 

 

 Holder knows that, and that is why part of why he has a strong negative and positive view of hi and Sky's relationship. He doesn't want her to be Hope, he wants her to be Sky just Sky. 

 

 I think I cried more in Losing Hope than I did in Hopeless. There was something about being inside Holder's head that just made it all that more emotional to read. 

 

 *Quote- "I wonder if it's possible for people to fall in love with a person one characteristic at a time, or if you fall for the entire person at once. Because I think I just fell in love with her wit. And her bluntness. And maybe even her mouth, but I won't allow myself to stare at it long enough to confirm."- Holder

 

                  "In order to miss someone, that means you were privileged enough to have them in your life to begin with." -Holder

 

                  "  Breckin this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for the best kiss with another girl, then he'll soon b my not breathing nonboyfriend." -Sky

 Saturday the Book Talk for Finding Cinderella will go up!

 For Colleen's Author Talk: http://realtalkbooktalk.blogspot.com/2014/04/book-talk-colleen-hoover.html

 For Hopeless's Book Talk: http://realtalkbooktalk.blogspot.com/2014/04/book-talk-review-hopeless.html