A review by nibech
Collateral by Ellen Hopkins

3.0

I'm only going to give this book a score of three stars, and here is why: I've read pretty much all of Hopkins novels, except for a few. This novel, while it is well written in her verse style that the author is well known for, was not as eventful as her other adult novel, Triangles, or others. The climax of the book wasn't until the last fifty pages of the book, and I feel like there wasn't enough build up to it, or maybe I wasn't paying attention well enough to the smaller details, like when Cole accused Ashley of cheating on him while on deployment. Regardless, I like all of her books quite a bit, but this one was the most dry to read.