Review: Collision

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Vanessa Clark, a second-year college student, has a visceral love of books and rainy days and an unbreakable bond with her best friends. Marked by her parents' difficult divorce, she found comfort in Travis, apparently the good guy that all mothers―including hers―would like next to their daughter. With him she hopes to be able to build a happiness that she has been missing for too long now. After two years, however, even that love seems to have cracked and only rubble remains in Vanessa's heart. At least until, in class, she meets new classmate Thomas Collins for the first time.

With a body covered in tattoos, green eyes in which it is all too easy to get lost, and a troubled past, Thomas is an explosive mix of charm and arrogance. He and Vanessa, so different from each other yet deep down so similar, fit together like pieces of a puzzle, giving life to a tormented relationship, made up of moments of passion and glimpses of tenderness, furious quarrels and reconciliations.

But Vanessa wants more, she dreams of true, romantic and all-encompassing love, the kind of love story told in the novels that she never gets tired of reading. Thomas, on the other hand, shuns every bond, feeling as though a perennial tangle of thorns is agitated in his chest. And yet, if understanding each other is difficult, parting is impossible.

Genre: contemporary romance

Publication date: February 2025

Mature content: yes

Review: I'm going to go against all the raving reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, and say that I did not like this book, mostly because of the characters. Vanessa is a 20 year old woman that behaves like a bratty teenager at best - but most of the times she actually sounds like a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. And on top of that, she's surrounded by bullies. All of the men (boys?) that show any interest in her are rude and abusive - and she seems unable to recognized this most of the time.   

Vanessa needs to grow up and take control of her life, Travis and Thomas need a crash course on anger management and to stay away from alcohol and drugs, and Logan - yet to be seen, but at the end of the book he also comes across as a psycho.

So no, this did not work for me in any way, and actually I think it passes on all the wrong messages. 

It does end at a cliffhanger, so I'm honestly hoping that part two of the story (not yet published at this time) shows a significant improvement. 

Happy readings otherwise!

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