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glutenfreebread's review
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
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? Yes
5.0
I Fell in Love with Hope is a story like no other, a telling of pain and joy, with poetry in every line, and emotion living in the pages. This book tore my heart into pieces, but put it back together again with Sony's dirty white shoes, Neo's sea of ink, Coeur's tangled earbuds, the sun in Hikari's eyes, and Sam's love for them all. I have never cried so much over a book, over people I now wish I could have known myself, over a beautiful story, I feel, everyone needs to read. I know I have taken a piece of each of them after finishing this story, and if you are on the fence about reading it yourself, consider this your sign, because this book is the most devastatingly beautiful thing I have read all year, and everyone should find a piece of themselves in it.
For a while, the start of the book felt slow, but the more I read the more I understood why it was this way. It is the perfect amount of time to fall in love with these people before they died. Coeur's death hurt the most, as I knew the gentle giant would no longer be able to smile with his other half. He would not finish telling his story with his composer, and as a writer myself, it struck me deeply. Sony and Neo were both equally as devastating to let go of. Sony for her relentless positive bubbly attitude that I grew to love, and Neo's snarky remarks that were full of love, but knowing them and having their memories is something I'll cherish forever. Sometimes the flow of the writing would get lost on me, and descriptions became overbearing at points, but it never ruined the feel of the story for me. This is definitely one of my all-time favourites, and will stay that way for a long time
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Self harm, Death, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Suicide
Moderate: Rape, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Sexual assault
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders
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