That's what 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 one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past 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.
I read Slammed and Point of Retreat earlier this year not knowing much about the books before I picked them up. Turns out, those stories were about a high school senior who moved with her mother and younger brother after the death of her father, to live across the street from a guy who has lost both his parents while in college. He changed his life course to take care of his younger brother. Somehow, even in the middle of a story line tragically serious... Colleen Hoover wrote an amazingly beautiful, funny and butterflying awesome drama that had me unable to put them down.
Because of this, I had no reservation picking up Hopeless knowing nothing about it. I didn't even read the above synopsis. Again, Colleen takes a story that is truly serious, but somehow finds the beauty in a story that made me fall in love with Sky, Holder...and maybe even a little bit more with her. I think it's safe to say that if Colleen Hoover writes it... I will read it!!!
There are some serious plot lines to this story. I'm not going to pretend everything gets wrapped up in a neat little bow and everything has it's rightful place. Sometimes there are things in life that there are no reason for or answers for. That makes this story that much more real.
It's heart-breaking and scary, but even through the bad it's beautiful.
Sky is a different type of teenage girl who would so badly like to just be normal, but being adopted, home-schooled with no TV, Internet access or sugar in her diet has left her as far from normal as possible. Her best friend lives outside her window and is fast and free when it comes to boys which has given Sky a guilt by association reputation. She loves her best friend so much that she doesn't care. Even when she goes to public school and people call her a slut, she turns it into a joke.
Dean Holder is a sexy guy with a bad reputation as well. Rumors fly about the type of things he's done and where he was last year since he wasn't in school. But that's what high school is, right? Just a bunch of rumors flying around.
I honestly don't want to spoil, ruin or giveaway anything so I will say this... this book is anything but Hopeless. I want to tell you that I "lived" this book, but I am no where in the middle with it. I freakin' loved it. My only word of advice other than read this and read it now...is pay attention to the warning. If you are sensitive to certain subject materials, than beware but that's it. Otherwise, this is as close to perfection as I believe can be achieved.
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