Crush

Title: Crush
Author: Eve Ainsworth
Type: Paperback
Read: 10th June 2017
Rating: 4/5
Published: 3rd March 2016 by Scholastic

Love hurts ... but should it hurt this much? Reeling from her mum's sudden departure, Anna finds the comfort she needs in her blossoming relationship with Will. He's handsome and loving, everything Anna has always dreamt of. He's also moody and unpredictable, pushing her away from her friends, her music. He wants her to be his and his alone. He wants her to be perfect. Anna's world is closing in. But threatening everything is a dark secret that not even Will can control... Eve Ainsworth's gripping second novel is a pitch-perfect exploration of love at its most powerful, addictive and destructive.

This story made me feel so uncomfortable reading. I think the way Will kept getting at Anna was creapy and scary. This book is about a toxic relationship, where the school stud gets with the girl, no-one would really notice. Anna is that girl. She's struggling anyways then to add her first real boyfriend to the picture it just gets far too much. Especially when the boyfriend is a pretty caluclated evil idiot.

I think this book is good to bring awareness around situations like this. Because sometimes we are blind to it, as if its not happening to us, then do we notice? But i think this book, and how Will took time to show his true colours freak me. He was all nice at first and then slowly made Anna alienated from her friends, her family and the music she loved, all because he wanted her to love him more than anyone and anything else.

Its tough. I think this book is a good one for teens, but may need a trigger warning if anyone who has been in an abusive relationship may read.

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