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A review by alittlebrittoffun
Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
2.0
*I added this book to my "to read" list in December so it really took me about a week to finish it
Anyway, it pains me to say this but I did not like this book. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that by the time I got to the ending, I hated it. I love Ellen Hopkins. I became obsessed with her after reading Identical and then slowly fell in love with all of her books and have now, read them all. She's an amazing storyteller and through all of her stories I get some kind of truth and knowledge and I love it but still, I didn't like this.
I don't know it it was the political nature of the book or what but it just bothered me a lot. I felt that the ending was such a cop-out with the scary marine coming back from his tour of duty and turning violent. It was just all so cliched and ridiculous. I wanted to like this book and even after reading the premise of it and thinking I wouldn't I really gave it a chance but it just didn't set well with me.
Anyway, it pains me to say this but I did not like this book. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that by the time I got to the ending, I hated it. I love Ellen Hopkins. I became obsessed with her after reading Identical and then slowly fell in love with all of her books and have now, read them all. She's an amazing storyteller and through all of her stories I get some kind of truth and knowledge and I love it but still, I didn't like this.
I don't know it it was the political nature of the book or what but it just bothered me a lot. I felt that the ending was such a cop-out with the scary marine coming back from his tour of duty and turning violent. It was just all so cliched and ridiculous. I wanted to like this book and even after reading the premise of it and thinking I wouldn't I really gave it a chance but it just didn't set well with me.