Welcome back to Top 5 Wednesday! This meme was created by gingerreadslainey and is hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes and you can check out the Goodreads group here. This week’s theme is Characters You’d Want as Family. I’m going with awesome boy characters that I would love to have as my brothers, because they’re seriously awesome!
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.
I had read Finding Cinderella (Hopeless #2.5) last year, and since then I wanted to know Holder and Sky’s story, because they seemed pretty adorable. Then everyone was recommending me Hopeless all the time, Cátia @The Girl Who Read Too Much was throwing hints and making me desperate to read it – so not fair :P. So when I found it for free on amazon a month or 2 back, I got it, and decided that the month of love – and then Feb 14th – was the perfect time for it. While reading I realized that maybe my choice of reading day was not the best…
I had two emotional states while reading this book, the first part was cute and funny and my heart was soaring, and then the second part came, and it’s gut wrenching and heartbreaking.
Yeah Sky, I know the feeling…
Colleen Hoover’s got me! Her writing is seriously magical. I was in love with both Sky and Holder from the very beginning and I just wanted them to be happy :D.
The beginning of their relationship is seriously the greatest thing ever, while being super intense and sometimes uncomfortable. I loved it.
I loved all characters, Breckin and Six are awesome by the way, and I was just wishing to see a bit of Daniel, but hey, I guess I’ll have to read Losing Hope for that.
Gotta love Six!
Then their relationship progresses and it’s great, and then the heartbreak begins. I knew this book was going to screw with my head. Heck, I went as far as guess every single plot twist and small thing that this book was going to throw at me – poor Cátia listened to all my rantings on Twitter and never once let me know just how right I was… – and still, it didn’t matter. Each time the thing that I had guessed would happen, happened, it still hit me full force and left be so damn broken.
This book deals with so much pain. So much… I was crying and my heart was breaking, and I was so happy at the same time, because of how much love there was in it. Seriously, Sky and Holder are #goals. I loved how this book talks about how not everything is black and white… you can love and hate the same person, no one is 100% bad, and that’s OK, you have to be OK with that, no matter how much easier it would be to not feel anything remotely good towards some kind of monsters.
I loved the ending. I love Holder and Sky. I want to know more. I want to read Losing Hope because Holder might just be one of the best protagonists ever, and I need to be heartbroken over his POV…
And can we agree that he says the most beautiful and appropriate things?
I mean, dude, seriously?! *swoon*
Hello, welcome back to another Book Traveling 
Thursdays, which a weekly meme created by Cátia @The Girl Who Read Too Much and Danielle @Danielle’s Book Blog. The goal is to share the covers of a book related to that week’s theme, which you can see at the Goodreads group, indicating the original cover, the one of your country, your favorite and least favorite.
This week’s theme is “Crying is not always bad. Choose a book that made you ugly cry“. I’m a crier. I cry while reading. I get too emotional and do weird faces and cry, whether I’m in private or not. The book I chose didn’t make me cry too much, but it broke my heart more than many who have did. So, for this week, it will be Hopeless by Colleen Hoover.
I love the image they used on the cover, I’m just not 100% on title. I prefer the version that only has it once, instead of smearing all over the cover.
Oh, look at that! The book has been translated to both portuguese and spanish :D, and I’m glad they used the original cover, though I do prefer the portuguese version to the spanish one, because the colours are a bit more toned down.
Both my favorite versions are from the UK. The first is just the original with a different placement for the title and author, and I like it much better than the original version. The second one I love because it’s black and gold and reminds me of the sky…
There are some bad covers for this book, but I think that the Dutch, French and Slovak are definitly the worst… I mean, neither of these girls reminds me of Sky… nope.
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