Losing Hope
Hopeless • Book 2
Narrated by Kirby Heyborne
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Holder's version of events shouldn't hit harder than Sky's — but somehow it does.
- Great if you want: the full emotional picture after being wrecked by Hopeless
- Listening experience: heavy, slow-burn reveal — best heard immediately after book one
- Narration: Heyborne's raw earnestness makes Holder's guilt feel genuinely painful
- Skip if: you haven't listened to Hopeless — this won't land standalone
About This Audiobook
Hopeless told Sky's story. Losing Hope gives the other half: Dean Holder's perspective on the same events, his version of every moment Sky experienced, and the revelation of what he was carrying through all of it — particularly the girl he let walk away years ago, whose fate has haunted him and shaped every choice he made in the time since. Colleen Hoover uses the dual-perspective novel not as a trick but as a genuine reckoning with what it means to hold guilt.
Kirby Heyborne narrates Dean's perspective with the emotional weight the format requires — this is a character whose grief and guilt are central to everything that happens, and Heyborne renders them without making Dean merely tragic. Goodreads Choice Award winner for Romance, Losing Hope functions best for listeners who have already encountered Hopeless, but Heyborne's performance makes the emotional beats land even in isolation. At just over 10 hours, this is a satisfying complement to the first book.
