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A Little Hope

Ethan Joella

3.69 AVERAGE

jfarmer18's review against another edition

2.75

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

There were too many people and too many different stories going on to keep everything straight. It was kind of depressing and down and I just didn’t love it. I mostly skimmed through the last third of the book.

bookedinthebakery's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookshelvish's review

2.5

2.5⭐️⭐️✨. Happy March! kicking it off with the one minute and ten seconds I saved of this audio to make it a march book instead of february 😂 as you may have surmised, I didn’t enjoy this at all. it was boring and sad and there were too many characters and a bunch of people died and what i did NOT feel was a little hope. lit fic is not my genre right now so i should really stop trying but I found this in an LFL and thought I’d be entering a new era (narrator: spoiler alert - she would never leave her fantasy era). speaking of narrators I hated this guy and couldn’t be bothered to look his name up. this still gets 2.5 because the cover is pretty and probably this book is good for someone who isn’t me lol

laurahood's review against another edition

2.5

emotional slow-paced

perfectdrug's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 58%

Too dismal

comealongphil's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ers407's review against another edition

3.0

This felt like a really good start to a novel. I felt it was a bit all over the place and I wish a few characters were eliminated and that time was used to develop the main characters more. I loved Freddy and Greg, Mrs. Crowley and Ginger but I really didn’t care about anyone else.

ashleysilver7's review against another edition

3.0

This is the first book I've read by Ethan Joella, and I almost gave it 4/5 stars....but it was hard to read at times. There are a lot of characters and many sub-plots in this book. Actually, the book is made up of sub-plots, and there is not one "main" storyline to follow. Because of this, it is sometimes hard to keep the characters straight. I had to go back a couple of times to help me remember certain characters, as many of them are mentioned anecdotally (or so it seems to me).

However, this author did a great job of telling the story, even though there were a lot of stories to keep track of. It was also fun that one of the characters, Freddie, applied for the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. And even though many of the characters are struggling (they all are in their own way), the book lives up to the title, "A little hope." It's a good reminder to not give up in our own lives, especially when it seems as though all hope might be lost.