Name: Priscilla Stanfield's review of I fell in love with hope by Lancali
Item: I fell in love with hope
Rating: 3
Author: Priscilla Stanfield

Lancali

Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That’s what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me.

Since then, I've sworn never to love anyone again. With three exceptions: My friends, Sony, Neo, and Coeur, a little gang of rebellious, dying kids. Sony leads the charge with the air of freedom and only one lung to breathe it. Neo, a bad-tempered and wheel-chaired writer, keeps track of our great deeds from stealing to terrorizing our nurse. Coeur is the beautiful boy, the muscle, the gentle giant with a failing heart.

Before death inevitably knocks down our doors, my thieves and I have one last heist planned. A great escape that will take us far from abusive parents, crippling loss, and the realities of our diseases. So what happens when someone else walks through the door? What happens when a girl joins our party and renders me speechless with her mischievous smile? What happens when she has suns in her eyes, and as terrified as I am to lose again, I start to fall?

I fell in love with hope

jay hockenberry

“Your lives were stolen, I said. Why not steal some of it back?”

🌸 Crybaby 🌸

"Remember me," he says. "Remember that just because the stars fell doesn't mean they werent worth wishing on."

They give you an illusion of why, but why is a loud question, and death is quiet.

Sufia imran

Our forbidden targets were ours the moment they lay in our hands. We're greedy creatures, but not ungrateful. You don't have to partake in destruction to admire the weapons.

Akshat Parmar

camila santaella

Aimee :)

Whatever face vou give to the shadow whose name is hope.

Because ifwe chose to only love what we wouldn't lose, then we would never love at all."

The dark swallows him and I watch him die.

I realize, as my tears fall, that I always wondered if the suns in his eyes would suit the moons in mine till they shut forever and every night left to come, it rained.

And Sam is too tired to keep pretending his cage is the world.

"Hikari. Love doesn't fade when people do."

The great abuser of Neo's life was not his father, but the sickness in his veins. It was a bond Neo forged, unasked, expectant of flesh and sanity, but for all the pain it caused him, it never came close to the pain of pretending to be someone else.

"People have this delusion of inherent purpose as if fate is written in stone when really the pen has always been in our hands."

“I think the world is going to weep for every word you write.”

in french, you do not say you miss someone. You say they are missing from you.

“My heart beats with thunder and lightning and know it's weak, but it's the one I gave you.”

The sky kisses our angry sea with gold and red tints, breaking through the clouds to caress the ripples,

Itis a taker, plain, direct, no tricks up its sleeve.

Death was kind enough to wait for goodbye.

From outside the checkered windows, I watch with blurred vision as Sony takes her last breath.

I wake to Sony drowning from the inside out.

Mal 

I’m kind of upset that I didn’t enjoy this like I was hoping too. I’ve heard such amazing thing about the book  it didn’t know much about the plot of it. While I think it could have been a good plot—am I’m sure it is for some readers—I was distracted with how it was written. It tried so hard to be poetic that it distracted from the overall story. I was figuring how it ended was going to be it’s ending and how it’s written could be the reason for what was revealed it just wasn’t something I could get into. 

Priscilla Stanfield

Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I broke the one rule dying people must always follow. I fell in love. I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in such a desolate place. That's what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide before my eyes. Since then, I've sworn never to love again. With three exceptions: My best friends, Sony, Neo, and Coeur, a little gang of rebellious dying kids. Sony leads the charge with the air of freedom and only one lung to breathe it. Neo, a bad-tempered and wheel-chaired writer, keeps track of our great deeds from stealing to terrorizing our nurse. Coeur is the beautiful boy, the muscle, the gentle giant with a failing heart,Before death inevitably knocks down our doors, my thieves and I have one last heist planned. A great escape that will take us far from abusive parents, crippling loss, and the realities of our diseases. So what happens when someone else walks through the door? What happens when a girl joins our party and renders me speechless with her mischievous smiles? What happens when she has suns in her eyes, and as terrified as I am to lose again, I start to fall?

I Fell in Love with Hope

Faye

Took me a while to get into it but I loved everything about it 

Maria Morales 

This is a book I would add to my “I wish I could read for the first time again” list. This book had my smiling crying and feeling warm inside. Please give this book the chance it deserves. 

Samm

So empathetic and so heartfelt; beautiful flowery and at the same time wilting writting, full of euphamisims, epitomes and all sorts of microcosms. I found it kind of difficult to get through, super hard to progress through the pages, and whislt it was full of emotion and heart wrenching, gut-kicking language and lines, this book was boring. Not alot was going on, and it just wasn't really giving to me, since I'm such a big plot girly, so when there's no plot for me, and just pure vibes, I lose alot of focus very quickly. I do love the idea of the narrator, it was very unique and I found it especially interesting how the author was able to work this into the book so well. 

surtified™

Agus Charky

After reading -- not reading, devouring -- this book, it's not hard to say that it's instantly my favourite book. From characters to plot and description, everything about this book made my heart ache. Quoting what others have said, this book has a soul, a broken yet beating soul, its tears of joy and of sadness bleeding of ink on the pages. I've finished the book physically, but mentally I will always carry a part of it with me. I feel like I've not only learnt so much from it, but also related to it in so many ways and 

the character's emotion through the pages. I love the descriptions, and though people say that it's 'metaphor after metaphor', I loved every single bit of it and pored over it endlessly. They were my favourite parts, the descriptions of both pain and happiness, the cross between agony and peace. The book shows such strong themes of love and loss, as well as pulling on themes of identity and overcoming grief. I was in full concentration for this book, and got through it so quickly. This book was a bliss of an agonising pain of grief and a peaceful solace of love.

Amelia

After reading -- not reading, devouring -- this book, it's not hard to say that it's instantly my favourite book. From characters to plot and description, everything about this book made my heart ache. Quoting what others have said, this book has a soul, a broken yet beating soul, its tears of joy and of sadness bleeding of ink on the pages. I've finished the book physically, but mentally I will always carry a part of it with me. I feel like I've not only learnt so much from it, but also related to it in so many ways and felt the character's emotion through the pages. I love the descriptions, and though people say that it's 'metaphor after metaphor', I loved every single bit of it and pored over it endlessly. They were my favourite parts, the descriptions of both pain and happiness, the cross between agony and peace. The book shows such strong themes of love and loss, as well as pulling on themes of identity and overcoming grief. I was in full concentration for this book, and got through it so quickly. This book was a bliss of an agonising pain of grief and a peaceful solace of love.

I had such high hopes for this. In the beginning it gave me Red Band Society vibes and I was excited bc I loved that show… but the more I read the more it just fell flat for me. Was it heartbreaking!? Absolutely. It just felt very overly written. Like the author was trying to make it deeper than it needed to be. I felt myself rolling my eyes at some of the dialogue in this, as many others have stated, reading like a quote on a Pinterest board. I just wish I could take away the over the top dramatics and read just a beautiful, sad, love story about a group of friends living and surviving and dying together. I found myself just scanning paragraph after paragraph of nonsense. It was okay, not my favorite but I just walked away from it more bored than sad.

BROOKE A

Evie

Addison Hardaway

Balling my eyes out. It made me so sad, but somehow I also felt at piece while reading it.

miraj

This book was truly beautiful but I found it really difficult to get through it. 

Camille

absolutely beautiful. the author ripped my heart out and stomped on it, but it was beautiful. i lived the characters and the metaphors

Lia Morris

i felt so connected to all the characters which made the loss of them so incredibly heartbreaking.

angie

This book was just metaphor after metaphor. 

Keira 💫

Utterly disappointed. 

This book was just metaphor after metaphor. 

I couldn’t get through this. 

Too bad it was hyped up too much. 

Beautifully written and tragically heartbreaking.

Ashley Iupi

What. The. Frick. This book made my soul weep tears of happiness, dread, and sorrow. Lancalli is an amazing writer, and I fear I will never be over this book.

Heather

The way this book completely destroyed me and built me back. That's it. I cannot put in words just how much this book affected me but all i can say is Lancali is an amazing writer she has a beautiful way with words and very surreal way of telling stories, and used her words to make me very very miserable, but still I'd love to thank her with 1000s of words for letting me experience this book. 

Shruti<3

Elissa Bowe LeBeau

This was one of the weirder books I’ve read. I wish it would have been about half the length. 

I would say this book is incredibly emotional. I was feeling a lot as I read it; mostly, the emotion was boredom, but there were some tears shed, especially for the last few chapters. 

I don’t think I’m clear on what this book was supposed to be. A study in grief? A love story happens to be set in a hospital? A few stories from different places in time that happened to tie together?

I also thought the choice of narrator was odd. It could have been amazing but it felt so unexplored. This whole saga could be taken so much deeper with a developed narrator - and I believe it could be done even without ruining the mystery. I do, however appreciate that just like all the other people in the hospital, the reader never questions what is weird about “Sam.” That was one small thing that did feel appropriate. 

I was bored and I was sad. Slightly more bored than sad, though the tears may paint a different story. I will remember this book, but I will not suggest it to others. 

3/5

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