CoHo fans will love this ultimate guide to the Hopeless series by Colleen Hoover.
This Hopeless series guide will give you all the details regarding this popular young adult series including the Hopeless series summary, reading order, and the Hopeless genre, trope, and age rating.
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This ultimate guide to the Hopeless series by Colleen Hoover has you covered to determine if it’s a book series worth reading and to make sure that you read all of the books in the right order. (Trust me – you’ll want to check out the correct reading order!).
Be sure to also check out the rest of the Colleen Hoover book series, all of the Colleen Hoover books in order, or the best Colleen Hoover books ranked if you become a CoHo fan and need to read even more!
Hopeless Series Summary:
The Hopeless series follows the love story of Sky and Holder who meet in high school. The first book gives Sky’s story while book two opens up about Holder’s past, giving his story.
The final books in the series expand the story to include others in their friend group.
How Many Books are in the Hopeless Series?
The Hopeless series by Colleen Hoover comprises 4 books with one additional book related to the series:
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What is the Best Reading Order for the Hopeless Series?
Hopeless can be read as a standalone novel but is also book one in the Hopeless series.
If you are reading the entire series, you should read Hopeless first then Losing Hope followed by the novella, Finding Cinderella.
For the best reader experience, Colleen Hoover does recommend that you read the standalone novel, All Your Perfects (as book four) before Finding Perfect for the final novella to make sense.
So, the best reading order for the Hopeless series is the following which also coincides with their order of publication:
- Hopeless (2012)
- Losing Hope (2013)
- Finding Cinderella (2013)
- All Your Perfects (2018)
- Finding Perfect (2019)
Hopeless Series Genre and Trope:
The Hopeless series would appeal to fans of young adult romance and new adult romance. The related book is an adult contemporary romance.
Romance tropes include high school romance and wounded romance heroes.
Hopeless Series Characters:
Dean Holder and Sky Davis, Six, Daniel
Hopeless Series Recommended Age Rating:
The books in the Hopeless series have a recommended age rating of mature 17+.
Hopeless Series in Order:
Hopeless
by Colleen Hoover
Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies. That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder.
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.
Check out my review of Hopeless.
Losing Hope
by Colleen Hoover
2013 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
Hopeless was Sky’s story. Now, in Losing Hope, we finally learn the truth about Dean Holder.
Haunted by the little girl he couldn’t save from imminent danger, Holder’s life has been overshadowed by feelings of guilt and remorse.
He has never stopped searching for her, believing that finding her would bring him the peace he needs to move on.
However, Holder could not have anticipated that he would be faced with even greater pain the moment they reconnect.
Finding Cinderella
by Colleen Hoover
A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other.
But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.
When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect.
One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality.
But Daniel soon realizes that fairytales don’t exist, and unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.
All Your Perfects
by Colleen Hoover
2018 Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Romance
Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage.
The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart.
The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.
Finding Perfect
by Colleen Hoover
Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and Breckin are planning to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with a Friendsgiving dinner at Sky’s parents’ house.
But things have been off within the tightknit group and when Daniel reaches out to Six to ask the hard questions he hasn’t dared to bring up since they last spoke about their shared secret, he’s dismayed to learn that it’s this very secret bringing a cloud over the holiday.
Suddenly, Daniel must do everything he can to find answers for the one person he loves the most in the world, but will this search only lead to despair.
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