Too Late… I Love You is the new novel from best-selling, award-winning author Kiki Archer.Connie Parker isn’t convinced by this falling in love lark. Falling hurts, you end up with bruises and scars.She has the perfect answer: she’ll write about love instead. But what happens when the novel-in-progress describes more about Connie’s own dull existence than she wants to admit? And when will she … And when will she realise that her hero is beginning to resemble her new best friend Maria – a woman who seems to turn every simple outing with their 3-year-olds into a fun-filled adventure for them all?
In trying to make sense of the puzzle of her life, Connie learns there is no perfect person. Just that person who’ll fit you perfectly.
“The twists and turns and surprises just keep coming – read it now!” – Diana Simmonds, Curve Magazine.
“Kiki Archer excels when portraying the behaviour of the human heart. A page-turner written with honesty and warmth.” – Vg Lee, Author and Comedienne.
“Wow. Kiki Archer just upped her game.” – Lambda Finalist, Clare Ashton.
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I truly loved this book. I stalled finishing it because I just wasn’t ready for it to end. The book was light and happy throughout, while still touching on some very real and logical problems the characters faced. The one thing I would have liked more of was Connie actively finding herself. I felt like this was a backdrop for many of the events and could have been stronger to really bring out the story.
Gotta say that Kiki Archer is a talented author, first of all. The fact that she’s using her gift to write specifically for the lesbian community makes it an even greater pleasure to read her stories and books. One of us, writing for all of us!
Archer will make you believe in fate and Love in this charming, funny, and sweet romance.
This story is beautifully written and impressively so as Archer writes a story within a story. Connie’s stories both the one she is living and the one she is writing weave together perfectly.
I Love Connie and Maria so much. They have such exquisite chemistry both as friends and as more. I loved all of their interactions and dialogue, the cute flirty banter between them, and the genuine emotional connection as well.
All of the characters were wonderfully authentic and cleverly written.
I was greatly and pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end, I truly couldn’t ask for a better story.
This sweet and sensational romance is perfect.
For the audio book: Ella lynch flawlessly brings this story and these characters to life in her beautiful narration of Too Late… I Love You. Her voice is amazing and a perfect fit for Archer’s wonderful story.
Great book best Kiki book I’ve read.
This is my second book by Kiki Archer, and it was as delightful as the first one (But She Is My Student).
Connie Parker’s life revolves around her three-year-old son Noah, a fact her boyfriend Karl fails to understand. Yet, while she loves her son more than anything, she’s sometimes bored with her daily life, and so decides to take writing as a hobby. She doesn’t believe in love (how could she, trying to make a family with a man she only dated for a couple of months before she got pregnant?), but Bonnie, her alter ego, does. Then Connie meets the beautiful and mysterious Maria, another mother at play group, and finds out life isn’t as straightforward as she thought.
Too Late… I Love You is ridiculously funny (sometimes in a very bitchy way, which gives it a guilty pleasure feel) and incredibly cute at the same time. The pedal-cart / scooter chase in Brighton had me trying not to laugh out loud in the street. There’s a hilarious gallery of secondary characters, most notably Connie’s best friend Ryan. He’s both the best and worst friend. While he and Connie were shopping, I was screaming in my head (I was on the tram by then) to Connie, “don’t listen to him, you’ve got fingers, sweetie!” As for the main characters, the interaction between Connie and Maria is wonderful from the start, and the chemistry is obvious.