This book is a masterfully written glorification of pedophilia. A man exploiting a troubled little girl is not “romance”…it is victimization. Fantasizing that it is romantic in order to justify it or soften the blow of the damage is causes is dysfunctional.
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The ending was honestly horrible, I expected way more than what I got but maybe my hopes were too high.
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What a haunting story. It got a little respective at times but overall a good read.
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I abandoned this book halfway through once the acts of pedophilia started. I wish they had mentioned this in the book description. This type of relationship should not be attempted to be normalized.
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I stopped listening halfway through because I was so disgusted with the whole situation of a child being portrayed as a sexual character. I can’t leave a book unfinished so I finished the book. I get it that the author is telling a story that is uncomfortable, but the fact that she had to continually..
An absolutely amazing book! Seeing all of the different perspectives and stories with similar core values and recommendations on what it takes to be successful made me astonished with this book. There are so many life lessons and advice that I wish would never end. The narrations were amazing, and the entire book was interesting,..
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The content of this book is controversial and triggering for many. The book does contain graphic descriptions of sexual scenes between a young teen and an adult male. That being said, the story was beautifully written and wove together an initially innocuous relationship between two broken, socially and emotionally stunted people that slowly pushed the..
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this was the first book in a long time that I just could not put down. what a love story.
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This was so awful… I skipped many chapters and internal monologue it was so hard to deal with.. if I could get credit back I would..
The reader sounded very nasally to me. The portrayal of Wavy, even into her teenage years, the narrator still talked in a baby like voice which I found super annoying. I also couldn’t wrap my head around the story, which was made worse by the narrator. A love story about what was clearly a rape,..