Warda's Reviews > Without Merit

So, I wasn't sure where this story was heading at first. It was random, the family dynamic was messy and that's a fuckin understatement, but I decided to read on as usually with a Hoover book, it'll be gut-wrenching at some point.

And it was.
Not in the style of It Ends With Us necessarily, but in its own way. As I got more and more invested in the story, I teared up quite a few times.

I think Colleen Hoover is getting better and better with her books.
I like that there was a specific focus on family and mental health rather than just sex and boy-drama. It made for a nice change.

What I've realised and learned in this book is that I 'thought' the family aspect felt unrealistic. But then I thought to myself, what about the family made it unrealistic for me?
And simply, it's because I haven't ever experienced or seen anything close to such dysfunctionality.
I mean, it's fiction, but that doesn't necessarily mean that such a mess of a family doesn't exist just because I haven't experienced it in my 27 years of living. The secrets, the lies, the dishonesty is something that is all too real and I love how everything came together towards the end.

Acceptance, but still messy.