I Fell in Love with Hope: A Novel

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There’s so much representation (that’s why it’s easy to find yourself in the characters) and everything was very well organized. That’s why we came up here, right?” C piles on. “We said we’d plan it today. Our great escape from the hospital.” Neo glances his way. The possibility of today, but grander, stirs between us. C shrugs. “What’s stopping us?”

It’s a gift.” Sony sighs, her one lung filled with ambition. “Now watch me work, and don’t break my concentration.” The writing style itself is beautiful and flows so smoothly that I fell in love with every part of the book. you meet neo, coeur,& sony, and you just grow to love them so much and you feel for them soooo much. they each have their own different complications and it is so sad to read about their struggles and that although their life is filled with so much pain and struggle they’re still attempting to fulfill a list of things before they sadly pass.Neo is a writer, a bitter poet. Unlike Sony, he is silent, and unlike C, he is remorseless. His spine is fragile, but his words make up for it. He’s bony and short, so small we call him Baby, although, for a baby, he sure has a temper. I’m fairly certain he’s never worn a smile in his life. I’ve known him the longest, and though he’s scowly and mean, it’s all a mask, his protection. He’s also the smartest person I know—observant, creative, resilient—the one who plans and records our great feats of thievery. He claims that Sony and I are extroverts who’ve kidnapped him and coerced him into being our friend, but I know he secretly enjoys the company. Hospitals are lonely until you find your people.

This especially applies to Hikari and Sam. Their interactions were just bizarre and oftentimes incomprehensible. Overall, I thought this book was absolutely amazing, it was so beautifully written, and the character development was golden. I think everyone should read this at least once in their life. It’s a heartbreaking novel, but with all the pain for all the in between moments; for all the heists and adventures, for all the shared smiles and laughter, for all the moments shining bright with hope. if i had to write a review for this book to sum up my words and the praise for it, i'd fail. maybe someday i'll be able to write down coherent thoughts but for now, my love of prose and tragedies has been fed and reading this made me cry 4 times: a new record.Fresh air, huh?” Eric scowls, unconvinced. “Did you forget we have an entire floor dedicated to that?” He’s referring to the garden on the sixth floor. By the way, the trigger warnings in the book are BURIED. They’re in the foreword — which should actually be called a preface, by the way — under paragraphs and paragraphs of the author kind of ranting about why this book means a lot to her. The TWs are not listed out; they’re simply lumped into another paragraph. Many people could not find the TWs are were very upset with this book. They fact that the TWs don’t stand out at all should have

AND OH GOD THE WRITING. It was the worst part. As someone else mentioned, this book tries too hard to be quotable. Every. Line. Tries to be quotable and most of my annotations are just me telling the characters to speak normally for once. The dialogue is so unrealistic and the constant poetic language is distracting. Sometimes less is more and that goes for purple prose. Description should be balanced. It’s fine to toss in a few metaphors but not every sentence in a book needs to stand out. Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Librarians Group is the official group for requesting additions or updates to the catalog, including: And later, Sam describes themself as essentially looking like nothing you can describe and everything you can imagine at once, meaning they have no set appearance. There was something else about the prose that kept annoying me and I couldn’t figure out what. Then I realized: it’s all so *quotable*. Now that I know the author runs a Tiktok account, it all makes sense: every line felt like it was meant to be put in a “quote video” or whatever. Everything was wrapped in so many layers of metaphor it was impossible to parse. There also weren’t many “service sentences”; everything felt like it was meant to be a gut punch to the point where nothing felt like one. I find this to be a particularly young/immature way of writing—in an attempt to make everything meaningful, meaning is erased, because they don’t know how to properly utilize poetic writing. For example:Me and Sam are much more alike than I want to admit, but that's a topic for another time. I loved Sam as a narrator. I loved his interactions with everyone, although I think I would have liked to see a bit more of him actually dealing with his emotions instead of just seeing the others. I feel like we got so much more depth when it comes to the other characters, and Sam was slightly forgotten as he was the narrator. They get glossed over. Everyone ignores everyone else’s obvious signs of decay. Their diseases get swept to the sidelines. But what also bothered me about Sam and Hikari’s relationship was the fact that it seemed like Sam was trying to fall in love with her BECAUSE she was Real-Sam’s reincarnation. I already don’t like the insta love trope, so that made this worse. For claiming that they refused to let love into their heart, Sam sure fell for Hikari instantly because of her “yellow-flaired eyes” (??? What does that even mean?). Hikari had such a boring personality that I and many others just don’t understand what Sam would have seen in her other than their past lover.

I’ll be calling Sam ‘Narrator-Sam’ for a bit here, because Sam’s first love was named Sam. That Sam will be ‘Real-Sam’.) This book explores the theme of grief and how to overcome it to find hope again. At the beginning Sam is always negative and is always trying not to give others too much hope because they now believe that in a hospital there is no hope due to the amount of death he has witnessed, especially Sam’s death. Even though it’s been years since Sam’s death he still carries the pain and hopelessness, and it isn’t until Hikari arrives at the hospital that he starts to see a small glimmer of hope, of a chance of love for the first time in a long time. On a cloudless afternoon we slip out of the hospital. Sony leads the charge, C pushing Neo in a wheelchair across the boulevard. We make our way down the sidewalk and inside a mini-mart. Sony sidles up to a kiosk filled with sunglasses and dons a pair of aviators, scopes out the place, and nods her head. Sony sniffles dry air and wipes at tears that haven’t fallen. “We just wanted to go to the roof like old times, rebel a little,” she says, shrugging her shoulders, laughing at herself. “I don’t know what I’ll do if he doesn’t make it. He’s such a good soul. He lost his parents in a fire, you know, and his puppy! I—” This book was so disappointing. I’ve loved Lancali for two years and have read her fanfics but this book was hard to get through. The characters are suppose to be young adults but they act like their 15. The romantic relationships felt forced to me and I honestly could not understand why Sam was into Hikari.The conventionally attractive loud girl whose only qualities are conventional attractiveness and an overwhelming presence? Totally hasn’t been done before. third. did i mention, the mc has such a huuuge savior complex and it rlly made me hate her even more. Look. I don’t like bringing logical fallacies into arguments, but listen. I should have known better than to have high hopes for a book written by someone who worships Hanya “I don’t believe in therapy” Yanagihara. I’m interested to see how the author grows. But, as it stands, I Fell in Love with Hope is not a strong story.