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    Bad Romance

    By Heather Demetrios

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    Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone.

    Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape.

    Deeply affecting and unflinchingly honest, this is a story about spiraling into darkness—and emerging into the light again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 13, 2017
    ISBN9781627797733
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    Heather Demetrios

    When Heather Demetrios isn’t traipsing around the world or spending time in imaginary places, she lives with her husband in New York City. Originally from Los Angeles, she now calls the East Coast home. Heather received her MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a recipient of the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award for her debut young adult novel, Something Real. She is the founder of Live Your What, an organization dedicated to fostering

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    • 5/5
      How fucked up is it that so many of us can relate to this. My 'bad romance' was 15 years ago and I'm 'over it' and yet still fucked up in fundamental ways because of it.
    • 3/5
      I was sent this book in exchange for a review from the author.This book caught my attention right away! The cover is stunning and the description pulled me in. I have never read any Heather Demertrios, and I really enjoyed her writing style.Bad Romance deals with emotional abuse, mental health, and so much more. There is so much tension as you are reading, as you want to know what is going to happen. This starts off by learning about the romance with Gavin and Grace. While you are getting to know their love story, little hints are thrown in about what is to come. You will read a scene and then be told this is how it was until things fell apart. I will say it was a little slow to build into the action, but once it picked up I could not put it down.This not only deals with relationship abuse, but emotional abuse from Grace’s family as well. You see how her mother is treated by “The Giant” and how Grace falls right into that same pattern without even knowing it.I think this is a really important book. Most books that deal with IPV (Intimate Partner Violence) focus on physical abuse. This really focuses on emotional abuse and how Gavin manipulates Grace. I work with victims of IPV and most people do not understand this is a form of domestic violence.Overall, I enjoyed this read.
    • 3/5
      This is one of those books that left me all kinds of twisted. It was lyrical and life changing at times, but overall the concept just drove me crazy. It's so all over the place and yes, I get that that's the idea... it was just too much. I needed more progression and less of the same stuff over and over again. I really don't have much to say other then if you can get past the second person pov, and appreciate the drama theme... You will be entertained. If not, I'd pass. The only redeeming part for me was the fact that the Author's writing reached my soul at times. She had a way of wrapping words together to form beautiful, messy sentences that really hit home.