Yasmeen K

A book glorifying and explaining away abuse. Absolutely disgusting book. I'll mention a couple specific parts of the book that literally made me pull at my hair: 1) the fact the narrator keeps explaining away the abuse she is receiving as "he can't control it he just blacks out and doesn't have any control over himself." When this is proven just completely false in the scene where he reads her journals and thinks she is cheating on him. Without spoiling too much, he lies in wait for her to come home and attacks her in what was just one of the most unsettling scenes I have ever read. 2) The only reason the abuser learns that hitting is wrong is because of his child and the mother of his child (whom he abused heavily) asks him how he would feel if someone did that to his baby. Suddenly he learns that hitting women is wrong like some sort of emotionally stunted animal. 3) The narrator at the end "realizes her dad was a good person and he loved her". Citing that her dad only hurt her mom but again, that is false. The father attacked the narrator and her high school boyfriend and "beat him with a baseball bat until I thought he was dead." I have nothing good to say about this book so I'm just going to stop here.