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Hopeless by Elsie Silver

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4.75

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emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟/5
🌶️🌶️.5/5

“Trust your struggle, Beau…If we’re struggling, we’re still in motion, yeah? Heading somewhere better.”

We sit on the riverbank, side by side. Both of us practising being okay with not being okay — together.

“I’m scared of you becoming something I can’t live without.”

“Still not letting my guard down. Not when I’ve got you to keep safe.”

This girl has brought me back to life without even trying. 

“You’re not used to anyone showing up for you, Bailey. This is what that looks like.”

“You asked me who I wanted to be once, and it’s this. Me. Right here. Right now. With you.”

☕️ First person dual POV
☕️ Series (can be read stand alone)
☕️ Age gap
☕️ Fake engagement; he wants his family off his back, she needs a new last name around town
☕️ Ex-military / bartender 
☕️ His family are well known & loved around town, hers are the opposite
☕️ Protective MMC who is a cinnamon roll for her 
☕️ He falls first 
☕️ Well established secondary characters; Harvey & Cordelia, Cade & Willa (Book 2), Rhett & Summer (Book 1), Sloane & Jasper (Book 3), Winter & Theo (Book 4), Gary, Grant (hoping for a book 🤞🏻)
☕️  MC growth; communication, risking a relationship, military trauma & childhood trauma, self-worth/being worthy of love.
☕️ Epilogue
☕️ My comfort read series (and author) 😍
☕️ Elsie Silver is an instant must-read author for me

⚠️ Parental abandonment (past), toxic relationship (family), childhood trauma/verbal abuse (minor), fire injury/injury detail (explicit, revisit injury on page), war/military (past, revisited on page), medical trauma (past, revisited on page), PTSD (Moderate), death of a parent (past), pregnancy (not MC), sexism/sexual harassment.
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