Introduction
Hope and love are two different things yet they’re similar. As they make us dream and to imagine the best scenarios to happen in our life. Things that will make us happy or even sad don’t matter when it comes to us if we are hopeful for that. What if we get both of them at once? What if they both embrace each other to create something beautiful and beyond our imagination? What if someone fell in love with hope but that hope is not warranted that you get a happy ending after the curtains fall? When one falls in love with hope either it leaves you with the most beautiful situation you ever got or the worst thing waits for you at the end. It never lets you stand on a neutral side.
About the book
I fell in love with hope is a story about a boy, Sam and his friends who are in an unforgiving hospital for their treatments where he’s hoping that his loving friends will escape death one day and live with him forever. Death is inescapable, it’ll definitely come one way or another. Just like the love of his life died. That person suicides in front of Sam and leaves him with all the misery of life and an empty feeling of love. That led him to never fall in love again. But he didn’t know love is hopeful and he never understood that until one day a yellow sun shone brightly in front of him and turned his world upside down. That horrific feeling of love started to rise again for someone who looks familiar but still is unknown to him.
Blurb
“The love of my life wants to die.”
Sam’s love jumps off a bridge and takes away his life in front of him and he can’t do anything to save him, to stop him not taking away his life and leaving him alone. Since then he refused to let love or any other feeling take over again. With three exceptions: Neo, Coeur and Sony, his rebellious friends who are dying. But before they die they want to steal the world for themselves and for the ones they love. They want to steal every second of their lives from death. Neo, a hot-tempered writer stuck in a wheelchair keeps the track of their good deeds like stealing and terrorizing the nurses. Coeur, a gentle and giant boy with a failing heart who is in love with music and Neo. Sony, the leader of the group, wants freedom of air with only one lung to breathe in. Before they died, they planned their last and biggest heist. The great escape that will get them far from their worries, diseases, treatments, loss and abusive parents. Before they execute their plan a girl knocks on their door, Hikari. Hikari was just like them, tired of her disease and treatments. A girl who left Sam breathless on their first meeting and reminds him of his first love. She encourages Sam to start feelings of love and care again. But his past refuses him to let that happen. Sam knows everything about his friends yet no one had any clue about him or the reality of his existence or his love, Sam.
Themes
- Hope: In the book, hope is a significant part of the story where all the characters hope to be better and leave death behind for their friends.
- Love: This is not a feeling only for two, but here love was shown for their friends how they care about them and want them to live a long life.
- Friendship: It plays an important role as 5 friends can fight with everyone and do everything in their hands for their other friends.
- Dreams: As like hope, they dream for good. Dream of a beautiful and bright future away from sickness and disease.
- Lgtb: It is shown in the relationship between Neo and Coeur. Also, the past of Sam includes a mysterious boy.
- Life: Life was left to be an invaluable thing until one can taste the fruit of illness and diseases to make the most valuable thing.
- Death: Everyone has to taste death but what will it become when someone lives it every day and knows it’ll come sooner than they thought.
Characters
- SAM: An immortal boy who belongs to everything that existed in the hospital. No one knows about him or why he is here. They treated him as if he belonged to everything in the hospital.
- HIKARI: A lovely glass girl who coloured her hair yellow bright like the sun. She is in depression which led her to attempt suicide. She loves to role-play classical literature characters with Sam.
- SAM: A mischievous, sun-eyed boy who gave his name to an unnamed boy. He cares about him and became the only joy for Sam in that desolate hospital.
- NEO: A hot-tempered boy who loves literature and has a hobby of writing. He holds the record for hit list. He was abused by his father because he didn’t like Neo’s hobby and wanted him to do something progressive.
- COEUR: A beautiful boy used to be a swimmer before he was diagnosed with heart disease. He’s half French – half Haitian. He fell in love with Neo when they both attended the same school.
- SONY: A girl with one lung to breathe leads the group to steal the world. She loves to take care of children and animals.
- ERIC: He’s the head nurse taking care of all of them. He played the role of the dad of the group and kept all of them in line.
Best Lines
- Just because the stars fell doesn’t mean they weren’t worth wishing on.
- People have this delusion of inherent purpose as if fate is written in stone when really the pen has always been in our hands.
- You know you never wanted us to be happy, Sam. Happiness is a brittle,fleeting thing.You wanted us to feel loved, and we did.
- I’m not afraid of her. I’m afraid of loving her. Because then I would have to lose her too.
- Because you don’t lose someone once. You lose them hearing a song that reminds you of their smile. Passing an old landmark. Laughing at a joke they would’ve laughed at. You lose them infinitely.
About the Author
Before LANCALI got popular for her book she was known for her TikTok vlogs. She writes fiction and loves anime. I Fell In Love With Hope is her first book and she did a spectacular job. The descriptions of characters, scenarios and plots are beautifully written.
Conclusion
I fell in love with hope leaving you with heartbreak and surprise, as the end of the story conducted a plot one can never think of. But the whole story is worth reading. The story of every character left you emotional and encouraged. Their battles with their diseases and death are good examples for us to respect our lives and make them valuable.
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