Collateral : A Novel (Paperback)

from curvymommy

I really liked Ellen Hopkins' novel in verse Triangles (I stayed up all night reading it), so I was eager to read her latest work, Collateral. However, this story didn't grab hold of me like the story in Triangles. Told in alternating past and present time, Collateral is the story of the relation...

from sunshine608

It took some time getting used to the verse style of this book and I'm about 90% sure that my ebook version had some major formatting issues ( or else I got less from this than I thought). Overall I found the story enjoyable although sometime it did get confusing going back and forth in the vers...

from TheLostEntwife

Collateral is the first book I've read by Ellen Hopkins and I approached it with hopeful optimism - mostly because I had heard that it was written in free verse style and, after having immersed myself in poetry this year, I thought it would be fun to try something like this. At first the story re...

from slvoight

I received this book as a Goodreads giveaway. I found I did not really enjoy the book even though the story line was ok. I just did not like the jumping back and forth between past and present(my personal preference).

from bonniemarjorie

A review copy of Collateral was kindly provided to me by Atria Books.'Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every book is the same - profound change. The big question became, could I live with that...