I hadn't read a Colleen Hoover book before Hopeless . I own a different one (Slammed, I think, although I can't be sure.) My beautiful friend, Melissa, who knows way more about new adult books than I do has been suggesting Hoover's books to me for probably a year. In fact, she's the one who sent me Hopeless for Christmas. It was good, don't get me wrong. But it wasn't great. I expected to want to blitz through it. To get those little tummy flutters that come from reading about great relationships. But I didn't, really. Part of it was maybe the writing style. It was a little...I want to say simplistic, but I think that gives it the wrong connotation. Hoover just had the tendency to have characters say what was happening instead of feeling what was happening. I always hate when I make statements like that without proof, but there wasn't ever a place where I was like, better mark that down for my review. I just kept feeling, okay but show me th...