"Layla" by Colleen Hoover: Review:

“Perhaps what we desire can sometimes be so strong it overpowers our fate.”

“Layla” is the second book of Colleen Hoover that I’ve read, and it is her latest release. It is kind of different from the first one that I’ve read. Different in a way where the story is more of a creepy tale than a romantic one. At least, that’s how it seemed to me at first.

Colleen Hoover matches a couple’s daily life with a little bit of adventure, involving ghosts and spooky scenes. It all begins with a newish love story , giving birth to its first flame in a special house in Kansas. After an epic tragedy, the girl “Layla” suffers from memory losses, anxiety, depression and sometimes nervosity. So as to end that disastrous chapter and begin a brand new one, Leeds; her boyfriend; decides to take her back to that house, where they first met and fell for each other. Was it a good idea? You have to check it on your own.

But here is a mystery: how can you find yourself in a love triangle when you’re all alone with your lover in a house?

Following Colleen’s thinking, it is possible. And that is Leeds’s situation. He is in one hour talking to Layla, the girl he fell in love with at the first sight, and in another one handling a totally different person, unrecognizing her. Is he turning crazy? How can he handle two personalities in one person? Is his love strong enough for Layla to not let her down and fall in love for the ‘other’ Layla?

To be clear, all this weirdness must have an explanation. And this is what all the plot twists are about. Colleen amazed me with how she related things that happened at the beginning of the story, to what comes next, giving each detail an important meaning.

For the ending, I tried to figure out the best one Colleen could’ve given to a similar story, with all its parameters, but guess what? Failuuure. Obviously. An unpredictable reasoning, a well-thought and a well-structured story, all that I love.