A Little Too Much by Lisa Desrochers
Series: A Little Too Far #2
Published by William Morrow on November 12, 2013
Genres: Contemporary
Pages: 416
Format: eARC
Source: Edelweiss, Publisher
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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?

A Little Too Much, the second book in the A Little Too Far series, is not quite as good as the first book but it does manage to hold it’s own as the second book in a series. This book follows the story of Alessandro Moretti after the end of A Little Too Far and while I enjoyed his story, I just didn’t love it as much as I’d hoped.

Alessandro has left the church after the events of A Little Too Far and he’s seeking out Hillary, a woman from his past. Hillary knew Alessandro and his brother, before Alessandro joined the church. They share a very complicated past but Alessandro thinks that maybe Hillary could be part of his future. Hillary’s life though is still very complicated and she’s not sure she can forgive Alessandro for his part in her past. As for forgiveness, Alessandro isn’t sure he deserves it from Hillary.

The romance was steamy, that’s for sure. Even when she was writing the young adult Personal Demons trilogy, Lisa Desrochers has never had problems with steaming things up. Alessandro and Hillary have instant chemistry (probably due to their shared past) and I was rooting for them to end up together for that reason alone. Well, and some others, but mainly that reason. There are sometimes couples who you can just tell are meant to be together and that was definitely the case with these two. They both had issues, they were both very scarred, but they worked together to move past these things.

The story dragged a little for me but I still managed to read the whole thing in one sitting. The mystery of what exactly happened between Alessandro and Hillary in the past was enough to keep me reading. Sure, I saw some of it coming but there were a few things that surprised me. Really, even if the story hadn’t been enough to keep me reading, the writing and the characters would have.

Overall, A Little Too Much is a pretty good addition to the A Little Too Far series. I also liked that there was a Trent and Lexie cameo since I loved them in the first book.