For Holder, it is that Sky reminds him so much of someone he loved and lost when he was a child. Sky and Holder are both drawn to each other, Sky by something she cannot understand or explain. Hopeless is a compelling, gripping story of first love and also of discovering the secrets of a past long forgotten and finding the strength to deal with that and let go and move forward. Holder will be there every step of the way, as long as Sky allows him to be. When Sky puts together all of the pieces and remembers everything, nothing will ever be the same again – her life as she knows it has been tilted and the healing process may be long and slow. She finds that Holder has been keeping his own secrets and that it seems he knows much more than he’s letting on. Sky doesn’t know much about her life before being adopted by Karen, but the time spent with Holder will begin to spark little threads of memories, brief fleeting moments that Sky wants to explore.

She and Holder are both drawn to each other in ways that Sky can’t explain. Sky knows that she should probably stay away from him, he’s too unpredictable but despite knowing that, it seems that she can’t. He can be charming and friendly and dark and accusatory the next moment. According to the rumours, Holder spent the last year in juvie after assaulting someone and the times she sees him, Holder certainly seems to blow hot and cold.

The only friend she really has is Six, the girl next door but hanging out with the flirtatious Six seems to mean that her reputation precedes her enrollment.Īt the grocery store just after senior year starts, Sky meets Holder, someone whose reputation matches her own for notoriety. After all, she’s going to be going to college soon and she needs to have some sort of lessons in interacting and dealing with other people. Sky has been homeschooled all the way up until her senior year when she insists on enrolling at the local public school, just to experience it. Her adoptive mother Karen doesn’t believe in a dependence on technology so they have no TV, no cellphones, no computer and no internet. Sky has always lived a very sheltered sort of life. It also might be a trigger for anyone who has ever suffered abuse and mentions, or alludes to, child abuse and/or sexual abuse. Please note that this review does contain vague ***SPOILERS***.

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