What I Loved About This Book: It deals with a topic that most authors avoid: domestic violence among teens. The statistics don't lie. Most DV cases are between teenagers. And this book did a good job of showing the devolving of a girl who thought she could fix her boyfriend. The style was a nice change: written in reverse. You start at their 1 year mark and go backwards, which is pretty amazing when it's done right. And this was good. It was such a twist to watching a relationship go bad. Instead of watching it fall apart from the beginning, you see it fall apart in pieces backwards.
The writing was very good. The characters were real. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Read it in 4 hours.
What I Wish Was Improved On: Again, there's a lack of adult supervision. That seems to be a trend among a lot of YA books. But the biggie for me was the ending. I know you don't always get a happy ending, but we're left wondering what's going to happen. You're only given an implication of what might happen to Ann after Connor left. I wish we had been given a little more.
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