What is your opinion?
Chasing hope
"I like hope I can understand what she is feeling about being torn from her mother because I lost my mom as well but then to be told that you were adopted and your real parents want you back and your sister have to leave you even though she might not biological sister that is really wild"
About Chasing Hope
"** This review is based on the first three chapters, as the story is still ongoing ** Chasing Hope and I got off on the wrong foot, if I'm honest. The first chapter was one that is seen in many YA stories, but always gets on my nerves: it's the classical "wake up, you have to go to school" scene with family, in which nothing really happens, but many writers figure that because it is the start of the day, it must be a good start to the story as well. However, it doesn't add anything to the plot and the story would have been better without. Nonetheless, I continued reading, because as much as you can't judge a book by its cover, you also shouldn't by its first chapter. Fortunately, the plot started moving quickly after: in the second chapter, Hope learns something about her past that will set the rest of the changes in motion, and it turns her life upside down. It is the typical "it's my last chance, so you need to know the truth"-situation, but unlike the first trope, this one is actually realistic. This story would improve a lot if "show, don't tell" was applied a little more. Reveal scenes such as the one in chapter two are hard to write, because it quickly becomes dramatic and unbelievable, and that is what happened here too. With sentences like "My whole life felt like a lie and suddenly I didn't know who I was anymore", it becomes very dramatic, but there's no emotion. Instead, those emotions should be described more, and as a reader, I would automatically feel the inner conflict in Hope as a result of that. This was my main reason for deducting points for writing style: that one rule changes a lot for the story. About the other aspects of writing: grammar was good, but there were still some minor mistakes such as in the punctuation of dialogue tags, and the author had a tendency to switch tenses throughout a chapter where the verbs should've been in the same tense. But, as you might see by the many stars at the top of this review, I actually like this story. Here are some good points, briefly summarized: - Good descriptions - Decent vocabulary - Great pacing - Great premise to the story. I love where the story is going, and it promises to be a deep, emotional ride with lots of character development. By the way, please update this story! ;)"
