Sehrish Zehra

This book is poorly written, and poorly handles the extremely important and difficult to talk about issue of domestic violence. The book does not give this topic the due seriousness it deserves. The main character Lily, comes off as a teenager even into adulthood, and all of the other female characters are equally weak. The writing is extremely surface level, and the reader therefore cannot truly connect with the heartbrokenness of the characters involved. It comes off as a romantic comedy at times and tries too hard to be clever. The entire storyline is predictable, uninteresting and there is almost zero character development. Things that should be "felt" by the reader through the writing are instead stated, which defeats the purpose of a book. For example instead of you as the reader realizing that a character is being vulnerable/real the author will literally write, "He is being so vulnerable". I didn't like the first person point of view. I was in Lily's head and I just wanted to get out. I am used to reading deep, meaningful books that are moving and expected that of this book -- not even close!