Losing Hope & Finding Cinderella

Hopeless #2-2.5

by Colleen Hoover

A special bind-up edition from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover featuring the second and third instalments in the Hopeless series.

Hopeless was the story of what happened when a troubled girl named Sky encountered a long-lost childhood friend, Dean Holder. Now, in Losing Hope , we discover the truth about Holder. Haunted by the young girl he couldn’t save from imminent danger, his life has been overshadowed by guilt and remorse. He never stopped searching for her, but not once did Holder think that he would face greater pain if they ever reconnected. Holder reveals how Sky’s youth affected him and his family, leading him to seek redemption by saving her.

But is it only by loving Sky that he can finally begin to heal?

In Finding Cinderella , a chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love. But this love has they agree it will only last one hour and be make-believe. When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that it only seemed perfect because they were pretending. Moments like that only happen in fairy tales. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in love at first sight disappears the day he meets a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Unfortunately for Daniel, finding true love doesn’t guarantee a happily ever after . . . it threatens it.
 
Will an unbearable secret from the past jeopardize their last chance at saving each other?

466 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 31, 2025

About the author

International and #1 New York Times bestselling author of romance, YA, thriller, women's fiction and paranormal romance.

I don't like to be confined to one genre. If you put me in a box, I'll claw my way out.

My social media username is @colleenhoover pretty much everywhere except my email, which is colleenhooverbooks@gmail.com

Founder of www.thebookwormbox.com charity and Book Bonanza.

Reviews

[Abbie Branagh · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you're going to read losing hope, read it a long time after hopeless! it was very frustrating, I get it was from Holders pov but there was no new storyline and was literally just a repeat of their conversations word by word with nothing new to learn, so if anything it is a refresher of hopeless. Finding cinderella was better as it was another storyline altogether with some new twists. Going to give the series a break before reading the rest.

[Emma Schuster · Rating 2 out of 5]

~spoilers!!!!~
Honestly, I had to read this book to finish the series. I was interested to hear Daniel and Six's love story. Finding out that Six got pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption was a total plot twist that had my jaw drop. The writing and storyline was fine, but I wouldn't have gone out of my way to read or recommend this book if it wasn't in a series that adds contextual clues.

[Helen Llewellin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really did enjoy this book….way more than I thought I would as it’s basically the same book from a different characters angle. Perhaps not reading them back to back would have been a better idea though :)

[22alicet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Losing hope ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finding Cinderella ⭐️⭐️