The main characters spend most of the book dating (and having sex with) other people. When they get together at the end of the book he tells her that he loves her and wants commitment with her and only with her because she is “special” and “not like the other girls” and BARF. It is a harrowingly detailed account of a woman in an abusive relationship - both emotional and physical (see mention of date rape, above), and the friend who pines for her while sleeping with a bunch of women (including the heroine’s roommate) because he’s decided to have fun while he waits for her to get over her abusive boyfriend. SECOND OF ALL, this is NOT a romantic comedy. Also, this happens in the second half of the book, which brings me to my second point. And then she convinces herself she imagined the whole thing. The heroine’s abusive boyfriend tries to suffocate her and then plays it off like he thought she was just really aroused. If I had known about this I would never have read the book in the first place. FIRST OF ALL, major trigger warning for a date rape described in explicit and horrifying detail.
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