Losing Hope (Hopeless, #2)

by Colleen Hoover

[Angie]

I received an ARC through NetGalley.

I didn’t end up hating Losing Hope as much as I anticipated after finding out it was just Hopeless from Holder’s POV, so that’s good. I guess. I’m not really sure what the point of it was though, since Sky and Holder spent pretty much 99% of their time together, so this was really a slightly reworded and condensed version of the first book. I skimmed a lot because of this. The only parts I actually read were the first few chapters which were a kind of prequel, all of Holder’s letters to Les, and the closing chapters since they’re a kind of epilogue. Everything else was a waste of time.

I did feel like a lot of Losing Hope was trying to rationalize and excuse Holder’s behavior from Hopeless. I definitely understand that he’s been through stuff. He lost his BFF as a child, and blames himself. He lost his twin as a teen, and blames himself. His girlfriend has had some horrible stuff done to her, and he probably blames himself for that too. It still doesn’t excuse him from taking out his anger on Sky or stalking her. His love for her was even more obsessive that I thought, which made it all worse.

I really don’t have much else to say about Losing Hope. It would have worked so much better if it had just been a prequel novella or a collection of letters. This full-length, straight retelling was quite pointless.

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