Hopeless is retold here from Dean Holder's side, with the parts he kept to himself finally filled in.
Losing Hope is Colleen Hoover's companion novel, narrated by Holder rather than Sky. It covers overlapping ground but adds his letters, his guilt and the history that explains how he behaves in the first book. Readers who finished Hopeless get motive and backstory; anyone new to the pair will find this works best after the original. Grief, forgiveness and the slow business of recovery sit at the centre of it.
Things worth checking:
• Companion novel to Hopeless, told from Holder's perspective
• An overlapping timeline with new scenes and interior detail
• Best read after the first book in the pair
• Centres on grief, guilt and second chances
For Colleen Hoover readers and fans of emotional contemporary fiction, from Boipoka.