Book: Hopeless
Genre: Young Adult
Published year: 2012
Rating: 2 out of 5 (**)
The blurb:Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…
That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.
Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.
My review:Ok, don't kill me but for me, Hopeless was mostly an over the top book. To be honest, after reading the first chapter I was afraid that it would be a 1 star book, but then luckily things got better unfortunately not that better. What prevented me from really enjoying Hopeless is not so much the YA genre or the predictability of the story, that the over use of tragic/traumatic events.
Seriously? How many of those an author can use in one single book?
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If this isn't over use of tragic/traumatic events I don't know how to call it.
I'm sad to say that I had much more pleasure reading some of the beautiful reviews written about it than reading the book itself.