Tonight was so much worse than anything before it. Tonight he didn’t stop after the first slap. At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved - and needed. Ann can’t recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor’s rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything - and everyone - in its path. This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.Intense. Scary. Heartbreaking. Unlike other book about abusive relationships that I’ve read, But I Love Him is told in reverse order. When the book begins we seen Anna at her worst possible low, and as the story progresses --- or rather regresses we witness how Anna comes to be in this place.It was brilliant on Amanda’s part to tell the story this way, often times it easy to think, why didn’t they just walk away, why didn’t they move on? It seems easy until you’re there yourself. You see Anna struggle with this, and you even begin to understand why she stays.But it isn’t just Anna’s story, it’s Conner’s too. And though what he does is inexcusable, you can’t help but feel some pity for him as you learn about his life. It’s rather disturbing. It’s easy to see the abuser as the bad guy and not a person with a history. But I Love Him is a hard story to read, but it is one that needs to be told.
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