Guest Review: A Little Too Much – Lisa Desrochers

In the follow-up to Lisa Desrochers’ explosive New Adult novel A Little too Far, Alessandro Moretti must face the life he escaped and the girl he loved and left behind.

Twenty-two year old Hilary McIntyre would like nothing more than to forget her past. As a teenager abandoned to the system, she faced some pretty dark times. But now that’s all behind her. Hilary has her life on track, and there’s no way she’ll head back down that road again.

Until Alessandro Moretti—the one person who can make her remember—shows up on her doorstep. He’s even more devastatingly gorgeous than before, and he’s much too close for comfort. Worse, he sees right through the walls she’s built over these last eight years, right into her heart and the secrets she’s guarding.

As Hilary finds herself falling back into love with the man who, as a boy both saved and destroyed her, she must decide. Past or future? Truth or lies?

Series: A Little Too Far #2
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Publisher: William Marrow Impulse
Source: Edelweiss
Reviewer: Candace
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

A Little Too Much is a great follow up to Lisa Desrochers’s A Little Too Far. I was heartbroken for Allesandro in the first book and I knew there was more to his story. Although the book focuses on Hillary, Allesandro’s story unfolds slowly over the course of the book as well. Hillary has definitely seen some difficult times and has a walled herself from feeling any deep emotion. Hillary and Allesandro’s pasts are intricately tangled and you soon realized that they need to face up to their pasts to move on to their futures.

The story is more weighty than the story between Lexie and Trent in the first book. Hillary and Allesandro are dealing with hard issues from their childhoods that include everything from abandonment by a parent, suicide, drugs, gangs, group homes, and the death of a parent. As a reader, you wonder how they survived and grew into functional adults. These two characters make you appreciate the depth and strength of the human spirit.

I would recommend this book as easily as A Little Too Far because it is a great story with dynamic characters who you can’t help but root for from the beginning . Lisa Desrochers’s weaves a fantastic story that shows how worthwhile it is to deal with a person’s past so they can move forward with their future.