Review

If you were dying to know—like I was—what happened to Alessandro Moretti from A Little Too Far (oh how I loved that book), you find out here in Lisa Desrocher’s A Little Too Much.

I think the hardest thing to do is to follow up a fantastic book and characters that were supremely loved, with another book. The drawing of comparisons are inevitable.  I’m going to tell you why I really enjoyed this book and try not to draw too many comparisons to A Little Too Far.

Hilary McIntyre is a very interesting heroine. Her mother is in jail and her father went back to Jamaica when she was a baby, so she doesn’t know him at all. She lived in a group home for almost a year when she was fourteen, and that’s where she met the Moretti brothers, Lorenzo and Alessandro. She had sex with both of them. Alessandro was sixteen at the time and she fell pretty hard for him. Then he and his brother left and she doesn’t see Alessandro until he appears in front of her building waiting for her eight years later. Needless to say she’s shocked.

Alessandro recently walked away from becoming a priest. After his experience with Lexie from A Little Too Far, he knows it’s not for him. But Alessandro has demons and he’s trying to atone for his sins of the past. That’s one of the reasons he seeks out Hilary. But honestly, he doesn’t even know the half of it…

This was a very different kind of story than A Little Too Far in that the tone was much more serious, the issues both Hilary and Alessandro face, darker. I’m not going to give away any spoilers, but suffice it to say that there are some surprises coming down the pipeline.

During a good portion of the book Hilary is in a pseudo-relationship with Brett, her live-in boyfriend and fellow actor. Oh, I forgot to tell you she’s an actress and tends bar to pay the bills. Her boyfriend Brett is super hot but I think he’s a cheat from the hints dropped. Hilary likes him enough but the more time she spends with Alessandro, the less she wants Brett ‘groping’ her. I was hoping she’d break up with him sooner than she did. And you can tell Alessandro doesn’t like the fact that she’s attached.

Hilary and Alessandro have this relationship that kind of goes in circles. She’s attracted to him but she wants to punish him for leaving her. I didn’t get why she got so attached to him at the age of fourteen and eight years later was still angry about him leaving. I mean he was only sixteen and it wasn’t as if he was going to stay in the group home forever. I did understand by the end of the book though and then it made sense.

All in all, I really enjoyed A Little Too Much. No not as much as A Little Too Far but I think it’s because this book was just more serious in tone and dealt with some very heavy issues. I will say that the sneak peek I got of A Little Too Hot, which has Samantha (Lexie’s best friend from A Little Too Far who went out with Trent while Lexie was in Italy) as the heroine, has me salivating to read it. It sounds a little bit more suspenseful than I usually like, but for Samantha and Harrison Yates, I’m game. ;)