A Story Of Ms. Hoover's Hopeless

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I think I just fallen in love with Ms Hoover’s writing. Hopeless was a sad and beautiful story, my only regret is not read this book sooner.

First of all, I have to be honest that at the beginning I was somewhat skeptical about this book. Given the heroine, Sky seem to have a loose moral, but that quickly changed when the story start rolling, and the quality of the writing also made a huge positive impact for the book.

I absolutely adores Sky, I thought she was a bit socially awkward, since she was well-sheltered and home-schooled, until her next door neighbor/best friend Six talked to her to enrolled in public high school on her senior year. Her first day of high school, she was quickly fallen to a victim of bullied because of

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