A Book Review
“Hopeless” by Colleen Hoover
A book that will make readers feel every emotion known to man.
I have never had such a visceral reaction to a book before. Don’t get me wrong, I often — and usually — relate and empathize with most characters in the books, TV shows, and movies that I read/watch, but this one was different. This one was deep in my gut. This one destroyed me.
This is the first book I’ve read by Colleen Hoover, and it came recommended to me by a bookstagrammer on Instagram who told me that it destroyed her when she was sixteen years old. To this, I had responded that I needed to read it. I never cry from book — the emotions never transcend my face or pour outwardly from my body. It doesn’t mean I don’t feel them, though, and for this book, boy did I feel them.
Hoover manages to weave together an intricate, heartbreaking, and poignant young adult novel that will leave any and all readers grappling to understand the horrors of the world that we live in. The fact that while a fictional story, this story has happened to people in our world (with likely some slightly different details) is simply traumatizing in itself.
The Plot
Seventeen-year-old Sky lives a fairly sheltered life in her small home in Texas with her adopted…
