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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
I loved sky and holder's relationship but the plot twist was so random like are you really telling me she suddenly remembered everything???? yeah sure....
Classic CH plot line - trauma, love story, trauma, happily ever after
Good twist in this one - totally not predictable like her other ones. However, the ending seem to drag on.
Good twist in this one - totally not predictable like her other ones. However, the ending seem to drag on.
SO. GOOD.
I could not recommend this book more! On top of a beautiful love story, each chapter has new twists. I could not stop reading this book !
I could not recommend this book more! On top of a beautiful love story, each chapter has new twists. I could not stop reading this book !
This book made me feel everything and I don't know what to do about it.
I think this is one of Colleen's more heartbreaking novels. It was just pain after pain with this book and there were times where I had to close the book to breathe and think about what the hell I just experienced.
This book was extremely sad and powerful. I'm impressed at the fact that Colleen just made everything come together so perfectly especially with the last scene where she remembers lying with Holder.
The only thing I would change was to have more Breckin. He was one of my favorite characters and I feel like we needed more of him in this novel.
I think this is one of Colleen's more heartbreaking novels. It was just pain after pain with this book and there were times where I had to close the book to breathe and think about what the hell I just experienced.
This book was extremely sad and powerful. I'm impressed at the fact that Colleen just made everything come together so perfectly especially with the last scene where she remembers lying with Holder.
The only thing I would change was to have more Breckin. He was one of my favorite characters and I feel like we needed more of him in this novel.
This was just absolutely amazing! I never been on such a thrill ride in my life. The mystery element was great. I felt sad for Sky at the end of the book. I never expected all the things this book revealed. I thought Six was a great character that every book needs to have the comedic relief. Also, I thought that Breckin was awesome too. Every teenage girls needs a BFF like him. Holder was hot and a flirt. I thought this book was beautiful piece and that Colleen Hoover has done it again. I loved the ending and the story Karen to Sky and the end. Now, I want to read the secret scene from Holder's POV and Losing Hope and also FInding Cinderella. AMAZING!!!
what the fuck was that???
edit: i read this 2 days ago and i still don’t know how to properly put into words how much i disliked this book.
it’s a known fact i don’t like colleen hoover books, although i remember having read 1 (maybe 2) of her books and liking the writing, but this year i made a friend who likes her stories and wanted to buddy read one of the books with me. it’d been years since i read one of her books (ugly love, ew) so i said yes. BIG mistake.
usually i stick to what i know i like and don’t really try new genres of books because i know what works for me. fantasy? great! science fiction? too much. and hopeless is in too categories i don’t really like: romance and new adult.
maybe reading this (if you care) you’re thinking “so why did you???” and there are two answers for that:
1) my friend asked and i wanted to read something she liked
2) never say never. i don’t usually like NA or romance but who knows? maybe some day i will. maybe some day i’ll find an awesome book that falls into that category. and even though this is very unlikely, i’m not going to discard the possibility.
that being said, let’s talk about the book.
the plot is weak and the more you get into the book, the worse it gets and the more disgusting the things happening are if you take a second to think about it. the things that later on was supposed to be a “big reveal” and even “plot twists” were so obvious that it felt stupid and we, as readers, don’t actually feel surprised. at least i didn’t and my friend who actually likes the book also didn’t.
oh, and suicide and bullying are used as plot devices. so nice, huh?
the characters are weird and just bad overall.
sky, the protagonist, was written to be a different type of “not like other girls” and more relatable but every. single. time. she was talking about how she *wasn’t a slut*. ok girl, we get it, now please talk about something else.
her traumas were something that could’ve been handled well and started important conversations in the book about mental health, but noooo. of course not.
colleen hoover uses the abuse sky suffered and the lasting affects of them in her life to bring the mc and her love interest closer together; her trauma is used to make holder more dreamy and a hero. there is not even an attempt to take her to therapy! more than that: it was meant to be a plot twist. so so SO disgusting. mental illness, sexual assault or any other kind of trauma should NEVER be used as plot twist, but this is exactly what happened.
the last thing about sky’s character is that there isn’t any development. she finds out many things about her past and why she is the she is but in the end of the book she is the *same* person she was at the beginning. and that makes no sense.
holder holder holder... he was, for a lack of better word, hot garbage. colleen hoover must’ve been insane if she thought dean holder was a good love interest because what. the. fuck.
we meet him at the supermarket were both him and sky are paying for the food. he then proceeds to stare at her and sky is obviously weirded out by this. he then proceeds to FOLLOW SKY BACK TO HER CAR, DEMANDS HER NAME, which she tells and to prove that’s really her name (because i guess she owes him that???? what?!), she shows holder her driving license.
so many red flags, this is RIDICULOUS. i don’t know what coho problem is but she is a woman like me and i highly doubt that she would consider this normal in a real life situation. more than than, i doubt she would be intrigued and *wanting to kiss this stranger*, like sky is, if this happened to her. what. the fuck.
besides a total creep holder has a bizarre behavior. as we sadly continue to read this book, we realize, by sky flashbacks, that he not only already knew her as a kid but also was somewhat obsessed with her. what???
but obviously he can’t be a total creep and still be the love interest so what does hoover do? she makes him “so romantic” by inventing a word that more than “i care about you” and less than “i love you”: i live you. yeah, you read this right.
why is this dreamy? who knows.
i’m not the best to talk about writing since i’m not native english speaker, but given that i liked colleen hoovers writing before, this was disappointing. it felt flat and just not right.
just one more thing: people that have traumas don’t all suffer from repressed memories and this memories surely aren’t revealed at the exactly right moment. people with bipolar disorder are not crazy and they don’t have countless personalities that exist completely separated and are there only to sabotage the other.
this book was awful, irresponsible and offensive. i won’t be reading coho books for a very long time.
edit: i read this 2 days ago and i still don’t know how to properly put into words how much i disliked this book.
it’s a known fact i don’t like colleen hoover books, although i remember having read 1 (maybe 2) of her books and liking the writing, but this year i made a friend who likes her stories and wanted to buddy read one of the books with me. it’d been years since i read one of her books (ugly love, ew) so i said yes. BIG mistake.
usually i stick to what i know i like and don’t really try new genres of books because i know what works for me. fantasy? great! science fiction? too much. and hopeless is in too categories i don’t really like: romance and new adult.
maybe reading this (if you care) you’re thinking “so why did you???” and there are two answers for that:
1) my friend asked and i wanted to read something she liked
2) never say never. i don’t usually like NA or romance but who knows? maybe some day i will. maybe some day i’ll find an awesome book that falls into that category. and even though this is very unlikely, i’m not going to discard the possibility.
that being said, let’s talk about the book.
the plot is weak and the more you get into the book, the worse it gets and the more disgusting the things happening are if you take a second to think about it. the things that later on was supposed to be a “big reveal” and even “plot twists” were so obvious that it felt stupid and we, as readers, don’t actually feel surprised. at least i didn’t and my friend who actually likes the book also didn’t.
oh, and suicide and bullying are used as plot devices. so nice, huh?
the characters are weird and just bad overall.
sky, the protagonist, was written to be a different type of “not like other girls” and more relatable but every. single. time. she was talking about how she *wasn’t a slut*. ok girl, we get it, now please talk about something else.
her traumas were something that could’ve been handled well and started important conversations in the book about mental health, but noooo. of course not.
colleen hoover uses the abuse sky suffered and the lasting affects of them in her life to bring the mc and her love interest closer together; her trauma is used to make holder more dreamy and a hero. there is not even an attempt to take her to therapy! more than that: it was meant to be a plot twist. so so SO disgusting. mental illness, sexual assault or any other kind of trauma should NEVER be used as plot twist, but this is exactly what happened.
the last thing about sky’s character is that there isn’t any development. she finds out many things about her past and why she is the she is but in the end of the book she is the *same* person she was at the beginning. and that makes no sense.
holder holder holder... he was, for a lack of better word, hot garbage. colleen hoover must’ve been insane if she thought dean holder was a good love interest because what. the. fuck.
we meet him at the supermarket were both him and sky are paying for the food. he then proceeds to stare at her and sky is obviously weirded out by this. he then proceeds to FOLLOW SKY BACK TO HER CAR, DEMANDS HER NAME, which she tells and to prove that’s really her name (because i guess she owes him that???? what?!), she shows holder her driving license.
so many red flags, this is RIDICULOUS. i don’t know what coho problem is but she is a woman like me and i highly doubt that she would consider this normal in a real life situation. more than than, i doubt she would be intrigued and *wanting to kiss this stranger*, like sky is, if this happened to her. what. the fuck.
besides a total creep holder has a bizarre behavior. as we sadly continue to read this book, we realize, by sky flashbacks, that he not only already knew her as a kid but also was somewhat obsessed with her. what???
but obviously he can’t be a total creep and still be the love interest so what does hoover do? she makes him “so romantic” by inventing a word that more than “i care about you” and less than “i love you”: i live you. yeah, you read this right.
why is this dreamy? who knows.
i’m not the best to talk about writing since i’m not native english speaker, but given that i liked colleen hoovers writing before, this was disappointing. it felt flat and just not right.
just one more thing: people that have traumas don’t all suffer from repressed memories and this memories surely aren’t revealed at the exactly right moment. people with bipolar disorder are not crazy and they don’t have countless personalities that exist completely separated and are there only to sabotage the other.
this book was awful, irresponsible and offensive. i won’t be reading coho books for a very long time.
Wow. I really thought Holder was going to be this massive pos the entire book, but holy shit was I wrong. Loved this book. Cried and laughed!
Actual rating would be 3.5
Probably the first of CoHo that actually doesn't include justifying cheating, although I'm not sure what to feel about the sex. It's not the age that's my concern. It's the situation that they're in. It was a bit shocking to me. But otherwise I think it's such an intense book, a roller coaster of emotions. It was going great at some point but then the ending was prolonged for abit longer than necessary and I started skipping paragraphs just to get to the point. Not bad though. Just lengthy.
Probably the first of CoHo that actually doesn't include justifying cheating, although I'm not sure what to feel about the sex. It's not the age that's my concern. It's the situation that they're in. It was a bit shocking to me. But otherwise I think it's such an intense book, a roller coaster of emotions. It was going great at some point but then the ending was prolonged for abit longer than necessary and I started skipping paragraphs just to get to the point. Not bad though. Just lengthy.
colleen hoover has a way of writing where you think you know where it's heading and it turns out to be completely NOT what you were expecting! I love her so much. another 5 stars for me.
3.5
It was good unrealistic but good I was like waiting to get to the end because with wanted to know what happened and to say I was shocked was to say the least. It wasn’t my favorite colleen Hoover book but it was better than I thought it was going to be.
It was good unrealistic but good I was like waiting to get to the end because with wanted to know what happened and to say I was shocked was to say the least. It wasn’t my favorite colleen Hoover book but it was better than I thought it was going to be.