A review by spacegandalf
A Sucky Love Story: Overcoming Unhappily Ever After by Brittani Louise Taylor
4.0
First reaction: man, those last few pages were so well written. Shed a few tears for that. Will write a better review later.
5/2/2019
First off, I would like to say that I'm sorry if someone reading this has ever had to go through something like this. I feel for you and I hope you find peace.
Second off, I wanted to read this book probably for the same reason everybody else wanted to read it - curiosity. I followed Brittani for a long time, since she still had videos with Shane. So when Milos disappeared from her videos I assumed they broke up or something but I never could have imagined something so bad, so horrible.
Fortunately, I've never had to go through sexual or physical abuse of any kind, but I label myself an over empathetic person, so when I was reading this I was feeling her pain and her sorrow. I find it easy to put myself in other people's shoes. I've heard people saying that she should have seen the red flags but I think when you're super in love and you don't think straight, especially if that person is the First, it's hard to be rational, it's hard to see the real person behind all those feelings. So I don't blame her for getting into that relationship. There was this scene in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo where. This type of situation creates a loop and whenever people read about a case of domestic violence they say "s/he's a coward, s/he could have left him/her at any time!" but those people don't understand that it's hard and those people probably are already telling themselves those things. But if some more serious things are thrown at the abused, like, in this case the mafia, a child, house, car, it's even harder, I think. So I empathise with her, I understand where she's coming from.
My favourite quote from the whole book happens to be on the last few pages of it:
I shed a few tears reading this book.
My favourite moment in the book was
5/2/2019
First off, I would like to say that I'm sorry if someone reading this has ever had to go through something like this. I feel for you and I hope you find peace.
Second off, I wanted to read this book probably for the same reason everybody else wanted to read it - curiosity. I followed Brittani for a long time, since she still had videos with Shane. So when Milos disappeared from her videos I assumed they broke up or something but I never could have imagined something so bad, so horrible.
Fortunately, I've never had to go through sexual or physical abuse of any kind, but I label myself an over empathetic person, so when I was reading this I was feeling her pain and her sorrow. I find it easy to put myself in other people's shoes. I've heard people saying that she should have seen the red flags but I think when you're super in love and you don't think straight, especially if that person is the First, it's hard to be rational, it's hard to see the real person behind all those feelings. So I don't blame her for getting into that relationship. There was this scene in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo where
Spoiler
her first husband, which she loved, hit her and afterwards said he was sorry and he wasn't gonna do that again, that emotional manipulation, until he did it againMy favourite quote from the whole book happens to be on the last few pages of it:
I am just lucky that I survived, when so many others in abusive situations often don't. If this is you, reading this right now, get out. Get help. Tell everyone around you. There is strenght in numbers, and power in the truth. Continued physical or erbal abuse is never valid or warranted. It is not okay, period.
The hardest step is the first.
I shed a few tears reading this book.
My favourite moment in the book was