Title: Too Late
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: New Adult, Romance
Summary: This girl is in an abusive relationship but then starts a secret relationship with the undercover cop who is trying to bust her drug trafficking boyfriend because that's obviously a smart idea.
Rating: 3/10 unnecessary epilogues
Review:
I love Colleen Hoover's books, and she's a great writer. But I feel like this book was not very good.
The premise is interesting and it starts off strong, but everything quickly goes downhill. The characters feel underdeveloped and cliche. I don't like how this story is supposed to be about how Generic Female Lead overcomes this abusive relationship, but in the end it's her Generic Male Hero who ends up saving her from the relationship.
The ending, without spoiling anything, is a mess. Generic Female Lead starts to act completely out of character in a "revenge" scene that is as uncomfortable as it is disgusting. When the reader is feeling grossed out by the main couple of a romance novel, that's probably not the best sign of a good book.
The only interesting character, unfortunately, is Asa, the abusive boyfriend. The 3 points I've given the book come from him. While he's nuts and evil and a terrible person, at least he's got some sort of personality! I would much rather have read a book all about him than the snoozefest that was Generic White People Falling In Love. The backstory of him and his father, as well as the crime ring he runs would have made for a much more entertaining story, in my opinion. In the end, I even found myself hoping there'd be a twist ending, with him winning, just so something about the book could be original. But things end how you'd expect a story like this to end, and it's super boring.
While this is no way turns me off to Colleen's other books, and I'm still going to read anything she and her talent touch, I don't recommend reading Too Late. But if you'd like to read the book anyway, it is available for free on Wattpad.com
