Ah, Ellen Hopkins and her novels in prose. Love/hate, love/hate. About Collateral, love/hate, as well.
Realistic but not realistic. The ending, not quite right. The book leads the reader to attribute Cole’s “problems” to his military service when, in my opinion, he had some of those tendencies prior to his trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was raised to be more conservative than Ashley was. They were never going to be a good match, military service or not.
Love/hate. Love/hate.