The storyline might have really worked for me here if the hero had not been such a giant DICK!Īnd this was all in the name of messed up love/hate or whatever the f*ck you call what that was!Ĭlick the spoiler below to find out more. With these characters having grown up together, and now this story which is taking place 10 years later but don't worry we do get flashbacks. Honestly, this book had all the crazy coming out to play. It was very Young adult with physical abuse, verbal abuse, bullying, humiliation, random sexual hookup, and revenge f*cks on ex-boyfriend bed and blackmailing mom and pop and not to mention threatening the very existence of her sick sister. To say I mostly hated this book would be putting it mildly. Well, I will freely admit that I am NOT the intended audience for this one.
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