Dare You to Hate Me

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But she ran anyways, and now years later she finally stopped running only to find her best friend again. Complete opposites and yet once upon a time these two individuals use to be best friends when they were kids. i started getting annoyed at how repetitive it got between ivy and aiden with her pushing him away and him pushing her into confiding in him. I am an emotional mess at the end of this book so if you want something easy and funny this is not the right choice.

So the night I snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, I’d accepted I’d probably never see him again. As for the romance, I wish Ivy showed her love as freely as Aiden did, but I understood why she couldn't all the time. From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the first in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever. A beautiful love story with two cha that needs to go through some hard times in their new adult life and to take decisions that will change their life for the future.I also liked the fact that she emphasized the struggle to get specialized help for mental issues when you have no money. Aiden melted my heart, throughout the whole book, even as a child he's always just wanted to be there for Ivy and to be what she needs. He was her pillar of strength even when she didn't need it, she was his strength to keep him fighting for what he wanted. Sometimes I feel like he didn't respect (I'll use this word since it was thrown in the book couple of times) some of the heroine' s decision. This had some very heavy themes (please DM for trigger warnings), but she counter balances it with the football team’s antics, friendships and lots of steam.

For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). I’ve lived the last few years believing that there aren’t such things as regrets because every decision made, no matter the outcome, is a lesson learned. I loved the character growth in Ivy, and with the epilogue it was not only ending on a happy note, but it showed Ivy being in a better place. I love this author's flawless writing style, the multi-dimensional characters and the emotional exploration of a complicated situation. With Ivy’s struggles and past always being something she had to face, to Aiden trying to help in any way possible for Ivy, this story was sad, at times dark, deep, and heartfelt.I loved every single thing about this story, and I feel like once you read it, you’ll understand what I mean. She symbolizes those that suffer from ideas and actions of self-harm as an outlet to release the pain they feel inside.

She is also the most honest representation of someone who had to struggle to survive and dealt with depression.In addition, for all those times when it seemed like Ivy was so closed off from others, she was actually a selfless and kind person. Ivy finally has her life back on track and the last thing she expected was to run into the boy who turned her away. Four years later, fate is bringing them on each other's path for once again and things are getting complicated. I loved the hero in this book, he knew that he had to give her space during the initial phase of their relationship but he still kept an eye out on her. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Ivy was the perfect main character because she symbolizes a very common person in our world today that no one wants to talk about.At age 16, Ivy runs away from a home where she feels no longer welcome, where her parents struggle with financial issues, where the cops are a constant presence after her parents fight and her mother verbally and emotionally abuses her. Ivy is far from perfect, but I found her backstory and reasoning behind her choices tragic and compelling. Aiden was having big dreams and he was working very hard to achive his goals, but he couldn't lose Ivy for a second time. Celeste is a new adult and contemporary romance author that gives voices to raw, realistic characters with emotional storylines that tug on the heartstrings.