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I fell in love with hope by Lancali

31 reviews

zoey_blk's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I started crying two pages in and haven't really stopped throughout the whole book. A truly devastating masterpiece. I am grieving for these beautiful souls, but as someone who just got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease I couldn't help but grieve myself as well. I may not be terminally ill, but the experience of battling with this stuff everyday is so utterly painful and tiring and an experience I know too well. I spend the whole day in bed(and on the floor), reading this book while dealing with a bad flare up. I can feel the inflammation in my body, it is painful and ever present like a sword over my head. A constant reminder that I am fragile and disabled in a lot of ways my peers could never fathom, and it's unfair. I am grieving the illusion of health I had just 1½ years ago. This is becoming quite a rant...I just want to say that Lancali did a masterful job in depicting our grief and really helped me in my personal journey of acceptance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Mental illness, Medical content, Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Chronic illness

Minor: Death of parent, Abortion, Drug use, Vomit, Blood, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

vagabond_bones's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Violence, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, and Suicide

Moderate: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Homophobia

Minor: Vomit, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Abortion

bafrin's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Felt like reading a journal, It is so realistically and beautifully written.

Some of my fav lines:

"I think the worst feeling in the world is telling someone you are in pain,and hearing them say there is no wound"

"Depression, it steals moments that should be yours."

"He looked into Coeur rather than at him"

"I'm just not real in the way you need me to be."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Self harm, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

x_kim_x's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Bullying, and Homophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Vomit, and Rape

linnea1801's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.0

The book really dragged on. The premise was so interesting but it was almost painfully slow. Every second sentence was a metaphor and I nearly stopped reading halfway through. That being said the story was still very good. All the characters were so loveable and I genuinely wanted them to live happily ever after

and I was heartbroken when they died

Overall I’m glad I stuck with it and I’m looking forward to reading other books by this author.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Self harm, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Child death, Grief, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Minor: Bullying and Rape

jor_dy's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

i really Did Not like the writing style however i SOBBED at the end so (award for most devastating book i’ve ever read goes to)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Death, Grief, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Medical content, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Homophobia

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Vomit

definitely look up trigger warnings beforehand !! ik there’s a brief list in the very very beginning of the book, and i’m sure there’s lists online too. i tried to put as many as i could remember, but my ranking of severity (especially for the moderate and minor tws may be off)

cianarae's review against another edition

hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

This was a little too slow, wordy, and dramatic for me. Especially the dialogue. The big reveal at the end was not quite a big enough payoff for how much they hinted at it throughout the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Self harm, Blood, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Death, Child abuse, Homophobia, Child death, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Rape

lisrae's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Physical abuse, Vomit, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, and Death

Moderate: Rape

gargs's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Vomit, Rape, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Eating disorder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Violence, Child death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Self harm, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cancer, and Homophobia

alexiia's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Dear GOD. What have I just read?

I got this book as a birthday gift, and all I can really say without going on forever is that I really wish I hadn’t told that person about this book. I feel awful for letting them spend money on this. At least it was a topic of conversation when laughing about how ridiculous it was with a few friends.

First of all, there were literal grammar errors. In a physical book. That I held with my hands. I would have understood this if it were, perhaps, written as a side project on wattpad, but as an actual book being SOLD to people? I can only feel bad for people who have spent their money on this disappointment. Call me a pedant all you want, but if you’ve spent YEARS writing something you claim to put your heart into, you’d want it to… be perfect—or at the very least… alright? I do not know the author or their thought process when it comes to editing (if the author even bothered to edit, that is.) , but come on.  If we can’t even pick out the right version of a word to force into an obnoxiously poetic sentence, should we even be writing?

Wow, what a nice lead up to a quick sentence about the prose! I cant really say much, as I’d thought this book could be a quick way to get into more flowery writing — I personally love an extended metaphor here and there. However, as many people who have reviewed this ‘book’ have already said, it gets excessive. Purple prose is a real thing, and this book has a bad case of it. To say the author follows so many accounts on Instagram telling people to not do this sort of thing in excess, and then doing it is… slightly embarrassing. If you write a whole poem about eating an apple, of course there’s not going to be any affect when the ‘plot twists’ occur.

Speaking of which… can we please just laugh about how badly thrown in each plot twist is?

From just randomly dropping in the fact that the nurse is Sony’s father, to Sony being pregnant (I think), to Sam… being the hospital (is that what happened?)… each thing the author decided to add just seemed like a pathetic attempt to make you carry on reading.

Please, do not get me wrong — I like plot twists as much as the next guy — but having no lead up, or any reasoning for adding plot twists that added nothing was… definitely a choice on the authors behalf. 

Hey… while we’re on the topic of poor pacing, may I just add how awful it was to just throw three of the “main characters”’ death scenes right next to each other was? It’s like they were asking me to not care. Especially when the only semi-tolerable character was the last to die.

The next thing I’d like to mention are the characters. More importantly, how insufferable the narrator is. Am I supposed to care for Sam when they only seem to speak in riddles and complain? A narrator doesn’t have to be likeable by any means, but by god would it help the story be more bearable if you also decide to make them the least relatable bore on the planet. There is nothing to say about them. They are not memorable. Hikari, the new love interest, seems to just be a ‘quirky’ girl — hey, isn’t that what Sony is as well? Having two characters so similar is… well, let’s just say that I was getting the two constantly mixed up. The majority of the main characters (save for Neo, and in some instances Cœur) were bland and unlikeable. You know something is wrong when the reader has to actively search for a reason to root for the main characters. You know it’s even worse when they find a side character mentioned twice more likeable than the main cast (nurse Ella fanclub, anyone?). 

The dialogue was also unbearable ; I found myself wondering if the author had even been a teenager before. By the way, how old are these characters supposed to be? They have the thought process of a five year old, the humour of a thirteen year old and the words of an eighty year old pensioner, but not in the way that made it seem like that was just who they were. 

One final thing — the portrayal of some of the topics in this book are… questionable, to say the least. I’d question why they felt like it was their duty to write about it, but they wrote it in such a disgusting way that I simply do not care. If you want to handle a sensitive topic, that is fine, but at least treat it with more respect than an off-hand line for character development. It was like watching someone wade their hands around in a blocked toilet instead of just looking for a plunger. The portrayals of mental illness, let alone other things, disgusted me. I may not have experiences these things personally, but even then I thought that these descriptions were awful ; it’s frankly sickening to see real things that real people have gone through get reduced to a throwaway line that gets dismissed as quickly as it is brought up. As I have already said, I have gone through none of the things that this book includes, so please do not take my opinion for gospel.

Overall? I feel bad for giving The Inheritance Games a zero star review because of this ‘book’. And I hated The Inheritance Games. A friend of mine tells me that she wants to borrow my copy of I Fell in Love with Hope. I tell her that it’s not worth it. There’s better books to read, and better things to waste your time on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse