Thanks to netgalley and Entangled Publishing for my e-arc of Love Me Never.
So, i honestly don't know where to start. I have really confused feelings about this book. When i read summary i expected a light read, an enemies to lovers kind of story but oh boy that was only the tiny part of what i got. Love Me Never tells the story of Isis Blake, a girl who was hurt a couple of years ago by the boy she thought she loved. Now she has lost weight and is determined not to ever fall in love. She moved to Ohio and is going to the same school as infamous Jack Hunter.
Since the very beginning i found something unsettling about the writing but didn't give it much thought. I wanted to see how the story would unfold but to be honest i think it would have been better if i didn't finish it because this book fucked with my head. I want to talk about some of the characters separately and i won't be holding some of the details of the story back, they also might be spoilery, though those topics might be trigger points for you like they were for me so yeah you might you want to know about them before you read the book.
Let's start with Isis. I'm not sure if i like her even a little bit or i'm indifferent. I didn't feel the slightest connection and was definitely the weirdest heroine i had ever read about. She tried to fill the darkest situations with humor and that was quite creepy. I didn't understand her at all, like when she wouldn't leave Jake alone and the excuse she used was that he had to apologize to Kayla when in fact that girl yelled at Isis for hitting Jake on her behalf. And then she paid Jake to go on a date with Kayla. That was fucked up so many levels that i still get pissed when i remember about it. I have so many issues with this character that i could go on and on but i'm too lazy for that.
Now Kayla. Oh man i wanted to slap some sense into this girl. I'm not sorry to say that she's the stupidest character i have ever come across. A guy called her stupid, a snob and pathetic and when Isis stood up to her what did she do? She got mad at her and still continued crushing on that jerk. That girl has no self-respect and i hate people like that. How can you continue liking a guy who humiliated you? No self-respecting woman would do that. No woman who has even an ounce of love for herself would ever go out with a guy like that.
I don't even want to talk about Jake. He wasn't just an asshole. He was a cruel person who liked to pity himself for the hard past he had (even though he wasn't the one to whom happened that horrible thing) and thought that this could excuse his cruel behavior. again no respect for people like that.
And the last one will be Avery. I wouldn't have been so mad if author didn't try to make us empathize with this monster. Why the monster? Because she set up FIVE and i repeat FIVE MEN to rape her best friend because she was jealous that Sophie and Jake became much closer with each other than with her. People like Avery don't deserve to be alive in my opinion. I hated her with all my heart and if i didn't love my kindle so much i would have thrown it across the room every time i read "how sorry and guilty" she felt about what she did. And let's not forget Wren who was just as much to blame. How could he not done anything to stop this when she told him to record it on camera? I don't care that author pointed it out how they were 13-14 years old at the time, kids at that age aren't so clueless not to know what is going on. So all that talk in the book about how shy and sweet Wren is? BULLSHIT.
I'm sorry but i have nothing good to say. Those few cute scenes that i did like a bit could never cover up so much horribleness.
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