Reviews with content warning for Violence - Hopeless

Rating: 5/5 stars

Beau Eaton needs something to bring him back to life…and it might just be Bailey Jansen, beautiful local bartender and Beau’s…fake fiancée?

I feel like I’ve seen mixed reviews on this one, but I honestly loved it. Beau is such a sweetheart, and I adored his relationship with Bailey—the protectiveness, the we’ll-save-each-other vibes, the golden-retriever-but-a-little-bit-darker energy? All perfection, and I truly didn’t want to put this one down.

I know I haven’t shut up about this series lately, but I genuinely loved all of the books, and I’m so sad to see it come to an end—but so glad it got such a beautiful ending with this book! Also, if you have the Bloom editions, you know there are Harvey bonus chapters in each book—taken together, those make up what I consider the sixth love story of the series and I absolutely LOVE them. (If they ever get bound into their own novella I 10000% would buy, just saying.)

Final series ranking: Reckless > Heartless > Hopeless > Powerless > Flawless.

CW: Past child abuse/neglect; PTSD/military trauma; fire injury/burns

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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ciara_fs98's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

The girl from the "wrong side of the tracks" finally meets her hero/saviour

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.25

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hjb_128's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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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

4.75

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Beau Eaton is basically the towns perfect prince from a family that might as well be royalty, he’s literally a military Hero who’s been through more than his share of pain, especially in recent times.

Bailey on the other hand, is more like the town reject, a bartender in the small town where everyone looks down on her and nobody shows her respect, except for maybe the Eaton family. Which is strange since their basically her families rivals and the two line absolutely hate each other.

Their family rivalry is kind of funny, since they are fake engaged to each other now. The problem is that they might just each want to be a little bit more than fake interested in each other, but how could that work in the real world when Bailey wants to leave the god forsaken that’s always looked down on her and Beau has his whole life wrapped up in his family, their ranch and everything he loves about the town she can’t wait to escape?

I’m going to be honest, I loved the idea of reading Beau’a story. I knew it would be deep and I knew some of it would be dark. However what I couldn’t see was who his match would be! Which is honestly ridiculous looking back, because obviously Bailey is just perfect for him!

I loved keeping up with all the family drama of the Eaton’s as well as the characters from the previous stories. It’s always enjoyable to really get caught up with characters you love, over and over again.

The writing of these books is also top tier, I never actually see the full twist coming, I saw the hints and had my suspicions but omg that twist had me mad! I was heartbroken for Bailey but so hopeful for things to work out perfectly (like it wasn’t going to! 🤦‍♀️)

Finally a little note on the spice, because oh my gosh was it spicy! I feel like this book in particular was incredibly full of spice from the beginning, despite the fact they didn’t do the deed for most of the book! Right from the beginning, these two just seemed so ramped up and open about their desires. I absolutely loved that despite being a virgin Bailey was so curious and unable to hold back her desire to know all the answers to her sexual questions that she just blurts them out. It had me howling, while creating some pretty steamy moments at the same time! I think this is a 4 star spice rating for me.

It’s definitely a series I’d recommend if you enjoy spice, because this cowboy spice is something else entirely.

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