A review by larainsidebooks
Layla by Colleen Hoover

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

By the end of this book, I was just laughing and shaking my head at this absurd plot. I see that Colleen Hoover tried to do something here and mixing a different genre into her usual romance, but it felt like she suddenly had an idea for a plot twist that seemed cool, but it lacked everything that it needed to make it a good plot twist. It was just messy, underdeveloped and hard to follow.

And here's also the fact that this plot twist somehow excused all of the bad things the MC did to his love interest, even though he didn't know the plot twist was going to happen. He even acknowledged that what he was doing was bad and another person agreed with him, but he still did it?! I find that really hard to wrap my head around.

I read a book with a similar aspect couple of years ago (2019) and while the ending was also kind of absurd, I feel like that plot twist had more weight and shocked me more than this one. That made me guess what was going to happen in this one too, but here it was just bad. 
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