Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi

She was probably one of my favourite characters in this book, if not my favourite. She is so impressionable and so in control of everything that it was almost a relief for her to be in a situation where the control wasn’t in her hands.īee and her relationship with Jo, her best friend, was one that gave me hope that somewhere out there, someone has a similar observant friendship. In my opinion, Bee’s change was the most terrifying aspect of this book. But I think rather than the things Aidan said and did (except for the obvious, because without even having read the synopsis, I knew this story would lead to where it eventually did lead), it was the way that Bee changed and reacted to him being in her world.

That being said, however, this was still a really difficult and disturbing book to read.

And because of this, my main complaint regarding pacing is that because we didn’t spend enough time seeing Aidan’s controlling personality apart from glimpses of it, the effect was made a bit weaker. Yes, abusive relationships will change the victim of the abuse and their perspective of the life they’ve lived before the “romance” will also change, but I wish we would have gotten a bit more time for the narrator to fully show the extent of Aidan’s control. For me, the story was hindered by the pacing. I, fortunately, do not have experience with an abusive relationship, so take what I’m saying with a grain of salt. I think the believability aspect of this was mostly the length of time that the story took for this troubled relationship to flourish. The protagonist, Bee, is extremely unreliable and if it weren’t for some issues with the pacing, the questionable conclusion, the short length of this book, and how everything tied up conveniently, this would have packed an even stronger punch. It was addicting, but hard to read because of the perspective that we’re reading the story from. This is a long text post.Īlways Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi was, to be completely honest, really hard to read. Anything marked and hidden under a spoiler link can be found on my Goodreads review here. This review may or may not contain spoilers. I received an eGalley (ebook) of this book via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. Trigger Warning: Psychological, emotional, and physical abuse.

Genres: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Abuse, Romance Always Forever Maybe by Anica Mrose Rissi