Four Years Later (Four Doors Down)

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His redemption should not have come as a result of being the reason she got over it bc he was there to make her feel safe four years later and he most definitely did not deserve to be rewarded her companionship while still getting to date other women. No one asked him to make all his sacrifices, he did it bc he felt guilty for how he treated her, so narratively speaking she doesnt owe him anything but the epilogue was written so you felt like she DID owe him something, with everyone going to bat for him, and that is gross.

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This book infuriated me, not bc it was badly written but because the rapewas a plot point to facilitate angst between the couple. This is a world where athletes all over this fucking country get away with assaulting women on a regular basis just because of how good they are at their sport, and why would I want to put myself through that? Rather than this being a real and relevant story about overcoming trauma, Four Years Later instead follows a girl pining after the "love of her life" after he breaks up with her and he sleeps with horrible "sluts" that she hates to get back at her and she just wants to talk to him and can't leave the apartment because she is so depressed that he left her and, oh yeah, her entire being was violated in the worst way imaginable .

Here we have book 1 being cute and fluffy and book 2 with the same main characters being dark and heavy. So in case you missed it the entire theme to this book was how a girl getting raped affects her boyfriend and gives him an excuse to be a monster. Everything in these pages, the dialogue, the heartbreak, the raw emotion, the vast ensemble of perfectly flawed characters, the epic romance, the road to healing and forgiveness.

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The whole point was to see how she heals and how he grovels, apologizes and realizes his mistake but we only get that for one chapter and then it skips the epilogue, which time skipped four years (hence the book title) but we literally missed all the important details that happened between them. If you or anyone you may know has been sexually assaulted/harassed this book and review post might be a trigger.

Everyone rolls their eyes sometimes but the constant eye rolls in this book honestly irritates my soul. We just have to get through the rest of this year, then we’ll have the whole summer, and then it’s only one more year ’til we graduate. A partir de allí su vida se viene abajo; pierde la confianza en si misma, su fuerza vital, sus ganas de vivir. And knowing now what I couldn't have known then, I can say with certainty that to not have experienced this storyline would have been such a tragedy in itself. It's polar opposite of them and when I read a sequel or trilogy of any kind the books have to intertwine a little more than just having the same cast but them being completely different.