He’s brusque, controlling, and demanding and Emily lets him walk all over her (Grrrr).Įmily has finished college and is now qualified to be a teacher but does waitressing work over the summer. She moves in, instead, with her old college roommate, Olivia.Įven though we are told of all the nice things Dillon has done for Emily, he comes off as a jerk from the start and never really changes. He’s a wealthy stockbroker and has paid the moving costs and most of the hospital bills (and SHE LET HIM) but Emily doesn’t want to move in with him right away. The story begins when Emily and her boyfriend of about a year, Dillon, are on their way from her mother’s funeral in Colorado to New York, where she will now live. (Yes, really) and the heroine’s heart “ricocheted around her chest” so many times I think she must have been a pulpy mess internally. “His eyes slowly languished over every inch of her.” (my emphasis) There were many misused words and general adjective abuse – for example: I didn’t like the characters, I didn’t like the story, and I thought the writing was ordinary. The book is highly rated at Goodreads so there are obviously a lot of people who disagree with me, but this book was NOT for me. I had little confidence it had ever seen an editor. The next thing is that, even though the audiobook is professionally published by Brilliance, the book is self-published. The first thing you need to know about Collide (which I didn’t know when I requested it for review) is that it is not the complete story.
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