First book in the “Hopeless” series was the real deal and the fame helped Colleen Hoover achieve several landmarks. The first book Hopeless instead of preaching hopelessness was actually teaching how to fight the hopeless situation. The main character was like always a girl with a troubled past and finally she gets hold of things after the first shock. This one is associated with the previous book thus if someone hasn’t got through the first one then it is difficult to understand what is going on in this one.
It was all Sky in the first chapter meeting her childhood friend in high school then coming to know about his secrets. Now this time the primary focus is on Dean Holder, Colleen wants to clarify the boy’s name now.
He has been searching for Sky from the beginning of this novel and he knows that it was he who made the life of the poor girl miserable. Now for reconciliation the meeting of the two is very important he wants to tell the truth about his own past too. How the actions of the girl made his family’s life miserable is told in this chapter. We stop taking the boy as a villain after that and think that he just wanted some catharsis and that’s all.
Kirby Heyborne is the new narrator for the book and there is not an atom of it different in performance and presentation. Journey to redemption is more painful the confrontation of the past that was the real trouble in the opening chapter. The chapter balances that last one and it’s more effective to get through both at the same time.
