Another awful book -- the fact that it was a "staff pick" is nothing short of deplorable.
Okay, so yes, another stupid book about a woman who "didn't get what she deserved 😢" She loses the man of her dreams and will stop at nothing to get him back!
She becomes an air stewardess at the same airline where he is a pilot. She breaks into his flat while he's away and rummages through his belongings on a daily basis. She has duplicate keys made without him knowing. She installs a spy app onto his phone. She drugs, then marries him in Vegas -- both without his consent! She sleeps with his sister's fiancé.
In the end, she stalks him and his family during a ski trip and goes so far as to push his actual girlfriend over the balcony, killing her 😱
And all of this was done as an act of vengeance because the man had a one-night stand with the woman back in high school.
This novel was absolute filth; it actually tried using the #MeToo movement to justify everything that transpired in the book. Did we literally forget that she drugged and married a man without his consent?! 😃🔫 Oh, but it's okay because he didn't reciprocate feelings for me when he was a teenager, okay?! 😠
And speaking of, her #MeToo movement is fucking horseshit!!
Two teenagers -- she 15, he 18 -- attend same-sex boarding schools, until the night of the school dance where they can finally meet and socialize. They both left the dance, on their own terms, to go to a secluded area; she because she was lonely and didn't fit in, he to go have a cigarette. They talk, have some sips from a bottle of alcohol, and eventually kiss 💋
And, of course, kissing leads to sex!! 😱
So the situation was just two young adults that simply gave into their urges; that's not r🍇pe lol... Even if she "regretted it" later on -- still not sexual assault... Even if he was a "stupid boy" who "ignored her" afterwards -- like, have you met boys? 🥴
In fact, in the protagonist's own words while recalling the experience:
"He was my ticket to my real life," "I gave into my feelings. I felt protected. It felt right." Hmmmm sounds like a you problem, maybe next time don't become infatuated with the first male you see 🥴
And again, while telling him about how she felt:
"She didn't want him to stop, because it was so nice not to feel lonely. And there came a point where she didn't feel she could say no, and she didn't want to say no. But she didn't know how -- or didn't have the confidence -- to slow everything down." We've all been there lol 😂 and again, doesn't make it sexual assault. It is no one else's obligation to speak on her behalf, and the fact that she couldn't find her voice is no one else's problem. I didn't find my voice until my 20s.
Not once did she say she didn't want to -- not even in her own head -- only that she wished things had gone slower. Unfortunately a lot of people are inexperienced at this age, and it's almost like neither party knows what they are doing! 😂😂 The fact that a man is labeled as a "child sex offender " for both of them acting on an impulse that they both wanted and engaged in, is absurd!
