Title: LAYLA
Author: Colleen Hoover
ISBN: 9781542000178
Publisher: Montlake
Pages: 290
Source: Private copy
When Leeds meets Layla, he’s convinced he’ll spend the rest of his life with her—until an unexpected attack leaves Layla fighting for her life. After weeks in the hospital, Layla recovers physically, but the emotional and mental scarring has altered the woman Leeds fell in love with. In order to put their relationship back on track, Leeds whisks Layla away to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met. Once they arrive, Layla’s behaviour takes a bizarre turn. And that’s just one of many inexplicable occurrences.
Feeling distant from Layla, Leeds soon finds solace in Willow—another guest of the B&B with whom he forms a connection through their shared concerns. As his curiosity for Willow grows, his decision to help her find answers puts him in direct conflict with Layla’s well-being. Leeds soon realizes he has to make a choice because he can’t help both of them. But if he makes the wrong choice, it could be detrimental to all of them.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover comes a novel that explores life after tragedy and the enduring spirit of love
Official Summary
19 September 2022
This book follows Layla and Leeds who are staying in the bed and breakfast where they first met. However, it isn’t long before Leeds meets Willow and everything starts to go wrong.
Like many other Colleen Hoover books, I have read, this one was almost addicting. I found it so hard to put it down and when I did all I thought about was picking it up again. I read this in three days, which is crazy fast for me nowadays.
I found the characters in this book to be very insurable but I think they are supposed to be. There were times when I wanted to yell at every character because of the things they were doing. I have to say Leeds genuinely made me so made for the majority of this book. Layla was okay in this book; I feel like we didn’t get nearly enough of her though. Willow was an okay character I enjoyed her overall character growth.
In typical CoHo fashion, there are so many plot twists that you will never see coming. This book definitely cannot compete with Verity and I think they are both so different and Verity is just mad. Although Layla did give me the same WTF feeling that Verity did.
Overall if you are looking for a quick and thrilling read I would one hundred per cent recommend this book. A solid four out of five stars from me.
Also by Colleen Hoover
Regretting You
Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.
Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.
With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heart-breaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.
While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together
About The Author
Author Bio from the Author’s Site
Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels and novellas. Hoover’s novels fall into the New Adult and Young Adult contemporary romance categories, as well as psychological thriller.
Colleen Hoover is published by Montlake Romance and Atria Books. Colleen also has several indie titles, including her psychological thriller, Verity.
In 2015, Colleen’s novel CONFESS won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. That was followed up in 2016 with her latest title, It Ends With Us, also winning the Choice Award for Best Romance. In 2017, her title WITHOUT MERIT won best romance.
Her novel CONFESS has been filmed as a series by Awestruck and is available on Prime Video via Amazon and iTunes. Katie Leclerc and Ryan Cooper star in the series.
Colleen founded The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription service and bookstore, with her family in 2015. The Bookworm Box is a subscription service that provides readers with an exciting opportunity to receive signed novels in the mail each month from authors all over the world. All profits from the subscription service are donated to various charities each month. The Bookworm Box has donated over $1,000,000 to help those in need.
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