Title: But I Love Him
Author: Amande Grace
Release Date: May 8th, 2011
Series: None
Number Of Pages: 245
Publisher: Flux
Source: Bought
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Tonight was so much worse than anything before it. Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap.
At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved — and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything — and everyone — in its path.
This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.
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Wow. That was a beautiful and powerful book. I don’t know how many time I’ve heard girls say, and even I’ve said that many times, that they would never stay in that kind of relationship. They would live the first time he ever raise his hand against them. The first time he shows any kind of violence. Yet, many will stay.
The story shows the struggle Ann face with her relationship. She loves Connor, but he is physically and psychologically violent with her. After every fights, he tell her how much he loves her, how sorry he is. Yet, all she can think is that she can’t leave him, because she loves him and he couldn’t survive without her. She couldn’t survive without him. The story is told backward. We see him at his worst, going back in time to see the guy she fell in love with. I thought it was brilliantly presented to make the reader understand the reality of her struggle.
I loved Ann, even thought she can’t leave him. She was strong, even thought she couldn’t find the strength to leave him…. Do I make sense? Connor was at the beginning of their relationship so different, but the Connor from the end, I would have kicked his butt if he had been dating one of my friends, even if violence is never the answer. He was always saying he would change, he would look for help, but he never does. Even if many say that violence is a vicious circle, there is no reasons to tolerate that someone is violent, even if it isn’t physically against someone, simply because someone was violent with him before.
The author presents beautifully a painful subject. She doesn’t make us feel bad for Connor, or accept what he does. She makes us understand the circle that can leave any girl caught in a violent relationship. Even if she thinks she is strong enough to walk away at anytime.
I need to read this book, it sounds amazing!!
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