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Colleen Hoover has done it again!

Colleen Hoover can do no wrong in my book. I've read and loved each and every single one of her books and they were all brilliant, and Losing Hope was no exception. Hopeless was one of my favorite books of 2012 and reading the story again from Holder's POV made me exactly remember why.

***Review contains spoilers for those who haven't read Hopeless yet***

In Hopeless Sky told her side of the story, but this time, in Losing Hope we get Holder's sode of the emotional journey...



Holder hasn't had an easy year, to say the least. After his twin sister commited suicide, his whole life has spiraled out of control and he hasn't been truly happy ever since. He feels guilty about what happened with his sister and decide to leave the they lived in with their mother and his moves back in with his dad. After having lived with his father for a year, he returns back home only to be confronted with the last person he could have ever expected. The person, he'd been looking for for the past thirteen years...


"Time stops.

My heart stops.

The whole world stops.

My quick glance turns into a full-on, unintentional stare.

I recognize those eyes.

Those are Hope's eyes."

When Holder meets Sky, he immediately recognizes the young girl who used to be his best friend Hope, but who disappeared thirteen years ago and who's been missing ever since.



Holder soon befriends Sky and starts to spend more time with her, but Sky herself doesn't seem to have any idea who Holder is. She doesn't remember anything from what happened before she was taken away from her home and family when she was just five years old. The more time they spend together, the more Holder starts to fall in love with the girl Sky is now and the more he wishes that she wouldn't be Hope so that their present won't be affected by the events that happened in the past.


"I've loved Hope since we were kids.

But tonight?

Tonight I fell in love with Sky."


What follows is an emotional journey in which Holder has to decide whether Sky should know the truth about what happend all those years ago or if she's better off without those memories of the past. And if she does find out the truth, how I'll it effect her relationship with Holder? In Losing Hope we find out how Holder struggles with knowing the truth but being unable to confide in anyone about it. It's not an easy journey, but we all know that eventually they do get their much deserved happy ending.

"I was in love with the way you loved me. When you wrapped your arms around me and held me, I knew that no matter what happened with my life you were my home."

Holder and Sky's story is filled with heartbreaking moments and reading their story from Holder's POV didn't make it any less emotional. In fact, Holder's side of the story made me even shed more tears than the Sky's story and a huge reason for that were the letters added thoughout the story. Aal of them but one were written by Holder to his sister Les, but the one that tripped me the most was (view spoiler)[the one written by Les herself (hide spoiler)].



There are so many more wonderful and memorable quotes I highlighted throughout the story and that I could include in my review, but I feel like you should really read it for yourself in order to grasp the true message behind this story and it's powerful words. It's a story about losing hope, being hopeless, but being able to find hope once again in the arms of love...

If you've read and loved Hopeless as much as I did, you will not be disappointed by this wonderful re-telling of the story! And if you haven't read this series yet, READ IT! And I promise you won't be disappointed either...


**ARC courtesy of Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**