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A review by dwinn5
By a Thread by Lucy Score
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
I have to say, I was pretty disappointed by this book. It was hard for me to like Dominic right from the beginning (I can’t stand people who are rude to servers) and it basically never got better. I felt bad for him and I understood his trauma, but he never learned the lesson that every other character was literally screaming at him the entire book: you can’t use your trauma as an excuse to treat other people terribly. He’s manipulative and controlling even when he’s supposed to be winning her back and he never listens to her. She spends the whole book telling him that she doesn’t want his money and it’s very clear that she wants emotional support, so what does he do? Throws money at every problem (despite her explicitly telling him not to), ices her out at every chance he gets, and makes decisions for her like some kind of patronizing a-hole. I like Ally and I genuinely think she deserves better, I basically wasn’t rooting for them at all by the end.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Classism