Reviews with content warning for Suicide - Hopeless

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suzanneholls's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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rheas_reads's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This book balances traumatic with hopeful it broke me down and then healed with the romance needed.

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tish12's review

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I went in a but hesitant for this one not sure why. Cause I absolutely loved it.
It began off slow and I was almost like , this is not for me and was finding it a bit on the boring side but I pushed through and glad I did as it picked up and BOOM! . I was hooked.
Very intense, I wanted to know more about Sky and her life what happened, how did this lead to that etc. And those reveals at the end omg.
But my heart broke a couple of times and I just felt heavy.

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mookayla's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes

3.75

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fskylynn's review

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4.5

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gigi43's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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cath_reads_books's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.75

I really think Colleen Hoover books might not be for me. I found this whole thing to be incredibly twisted and predictable, more so than just what was required by the plot.

It was obvious from the first meeting of Sky and Holden that he knew her from her childhood, from before she was “adopted.” It was obvious that Sky was Hope and that her father was abusive. As the story developed, it became obvious well before it was said that Karen was Sky’s/Hope’s aunt, who had also been abused by her father. The third abuse victim? Obviously Lesslie, who was so tortured by abuse she never disclosed that she took her own life.

What I greatly disliked throughout the whole thing is how romanticized and swept under the rug Holden’s manipulation of Sky/Hope was. Having violent outbursts and then not explaining them? Ghosting her for weeks only to show up and say “everything’s fine but I can’t tell you why I was gone”? Withholding information about Sky’s past and person from her even when she asks? The part where they both use each other for sex later in the book, so they can escape a traumatic experience for a moment? That’s not love; none of it is love. It’s a trauma bond, and what Holden was doing is manipulative and dishonest, even if he “had Sky’s/Hope’s best interest at heart”.

I understand that this book is trying to make some pretty heavy points about abuse, right versus wrong not being so black-and-white, and breaking harmful/toxic cycles. But in my opinion, having the main characters in a trauma-bonded relationship was not the way to illustrate that.

I do know this book is part of a series that I’ve committed to reading and it’s entirety this year, so I may come back and change my review later if some of this is addressed in further series installments.

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