Fazeela Nizamudeen

Many books have made me feel happy, filled me with laughter, made me fall deep into sorrow, opened a different perspective and some have even left me intrigued. But this book made me do something I never did before. Write an honest review. This book is worth the read for so many reasons. But for me the only reason I would vouch for this book despite reading some heartless negative reviews is that it makes sense. If you are reading this book because you want to how much of abuse and abuse mentality she covers or how deep she travels through the victim's heads pace then I would suggest you to go and read a psychology book or some well written papers published by many psychiatric doctors instead of reading this amazing book and vomiting negative reviews. I read this book without any expectations and it blew my mind that Colleen Hoover was able to capture the one main aspect of every abusive relationship that had always left people from few feet away wondering, "Why did she/he stay?", the excuses. Understanding the victim is one thing but to understand the reasons behind their decisions comes with a heavy price. The price of watching someone you love go through it or being the one to go through it. Colleen has sketched her characters beautifully. She started the book with a wonderful phrase, "there are no bad people, there are just good people who sometimes do bad things" and she stayed true to that line. She isn't spreading the message of hopelessness that usually a book on domestic violence perpetuates, she has heavily leaned towards making it all right, taking hard decision and gathering the courage to learn your limit even if it means it will break your heart into million pieces to impose it. The relationships she portrayed (love, friendship, motherhood and many others) were heart-warming and even though the plot was predictable (when you read a lot, every plot becomes predictable) I was sitting on the edge of my seat throughout my 5 hour read. Very few books refuse to let your eyes leave it even for a minute and this book was one of them for me. Each dialogue hits hard, each incident digs deep, each heart break feels personal and when everything is put together they all Make Sense. This book made me feel the pain, and yet stay happy. Because sometimes the only right way out takes everything you cherished and even more. It is a heart wrecking bargain and that is exactly what Collen Hoover has wonderfully portrayed in form of a story, based on her personal experience, which for me is the hardest part of all. My personal advice, never have huge expectations on any book and let it unravel its magic on its own time. This book is well deserving of the hype it has accumulated. And I will definitely recommend it to all.