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A review by glendaleereads
Collateral by Ellen Hopkins
3.0
I love Ellen Hopkins young adult novels so I really though this was going to blow me away like her other books, but eh it fell short. Her other adult novel Triangles was good and I enjoyed reading Collateral but it seems like Hopkins rushed the ending. Yes I understand that this book is written in verse but she builds up this relationship between the main character Ashley and her marine boyfriend Cole and its this relationship that you know as a reader is probably not going to end well so throughout the whole story I am expecting this explosive conclusion to this five year relationship and all I got was a few stanzas of it.
Overall, the story line was interesting and the prose terrific as always with Hopkins but in my honest opinion, I think Hopkins should stick to the genre Young Adult, it just works better for her style of writing. Adult Fiction in verse? its just to hard to capture everything, especially with the topic of this book.
Overall, the story line was interesting and the prose terrific as always with Hopkins but in my honest opinion, I think Hopkins should stick to the genre Young Adult, it just works better for her style of writing. Adult Fiction in verse? its just to hard to capture everything, especially with the topic of this book.