Too Late by Colleen HooverMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Love. Love is not found. Love finds.
*round of applause for yet another brilliant Colleen Hoover book*
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Anyways...Wow..that was so wow...Literally the only word flowing through my head right now.
I read this without knowing what this was about, just that it was Colleen Hoover and I just had to read it. This one was very 21 Jump Street. It follows Sloan who is in an extremely toxic relationship. Her boyfriend Asa is a drug dealer and she's stuck in a relationship with him out of fear and something else that he has over her head, which I don't want to say. Then she meets Carter (Luke) who is under cover cop trying to catch Asa and put him in jail. Obviously they fall head over heels in love. Obviously there's secrets and obviously it's utterly tragic and raw and beautiful and wonderful.
He hugs me. That's all he does. He hugs me tightly without a word, yet I can feel everything he is saying.
This book was definitely a lot darker than the other Colleen Hoover books I've read, but she truly did such a fantastic job putting it all together. She gave us three points of view. We've got Sloan, who is so terrified of the situation she's in and is just saving up to eventually get out. Then Asa, the drug dealer. And it's so twisted being in that guy's head. The way he thinks is just frightening and alarming and it's scary to think that there are other guys out there like him. He loves Sloan possessively and abusively. I loved getting his backstory a little bit and seeing exactly how he got to be this way. In some ways I pitied him but he was just so awful although I did love reading his chapters because they were so different. I was actually scared of this guy and what he could do. The last point of view we get is Carter (Luke) who I LOVED! He's such a sweet and caring person. I loved getting inside his head and watching his internal struggle of falling in love with Sloan and telling her the truth.
Worries flow from her lips like the random words that flow from her fingertips. I reach out and try to catch them, clenching them to my fists, wanting nothing more than to catch them all.
I really really loved Luke!! And that's secret way that would communicate in that house and when she wrote her response:
He in clenched his fists and dropped her worries, unable to catch them for her. But she picked them back up and dusted them off. She wants to be able to hold them herself now.
Ahh! I loved watching her get strong and there relationship was so great to read. I loved the connection they had immediately. And every time they were together my heart would race out of fear of Asa coming but I felt like I was soaking it up with them. I loved how this story shows 2 different types of relationships. And the absolute horror of being in an abusive relationship. Then the gentleness and how caring a good relationship could be. My heart broke for Sloan and what she has been through and I loved that she had Luke with her.
I guess that the difference in being loved the right way and the wrong way. You either feel tethered to an anchor..or you feel like you're flying.
The little notes they passed were great and the ones in their class were so funny, but then you find out where it originates from and it broke my heart. This book broke my heart continuously. Reading this in public was so hard, I was ready to burst into tears and some parts! It was just so emotional! I've said it before and I'll say it again, reading her books is an experience. You fee the fear of Asa, the exciting suspense. There is some laughs thrown in there, the writing is exquisite, the characters are so realistic, and the plot is intense and fast paced.
You don't want to miss the opportunity to read this one. I can't stop thinking about it. I flew through this and couldn't put it down. I just wanted more and more and more. I needed to know what was going to happen and how everything was going to play out. Then the way it all ending. AH I CANT! Just another great and heart pounding read by the wonderful Colleen Hoover.
And that's where love finds you..in the tragedies.
*wipes tear*
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