Four Years Later (Four Doors Down)

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I can't even fully wrap my mind around what a beautifully tragic, captivating, heartbreaking love story Emma Doherty created here. In this day and age if I heard ANYONE I knew slept with someone out of character at a party the first thing I’d ask myself is were they drugged/ assaulted.

However, if you are going to do that the book HAS to be about the heroine first and foremost, not the couple, and not coupled with the male characters pain treated as equal to her trauma.I understand why people are frustrated that she didn’t explain what happened but I think that is based on a lack of understanding. 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.

The author could have taken a real chance to show the struggles between a couple when one person is raped. Though I wanted to slap Ryan so many times throughout this book because he was just horrible to her…. Like please leave the poor girl alone and let her heal peacefully, she doesn’t need 15 people telling her she should forgive the guy who literally abandoned her.

She might not have figured out what she wants to do with her life, but she has something better—Ryan Jackson—and they couldn’t be more in love if they tried. And even tho they go to different colleges and don't see eachother very often, they're both really happy.

I wish it had at least turned interesting with a plot twist when she finally became the focus of an episode of “Snapped”. Like when he made a big show to show that he was with Becca infront of others, when in fact he thought it was a shitty thing to do when Charlie did it in the last book. After the ridiculous amount of shit Ryan put Becca through, after Becca’s whole recovery stage and putting herself back together without the support of someone who’s supposed to be there for her… The fact that they end up together really makes me hate this story. As someone who has experienced sexual assault and understands the sheer endurance and struggle that comes with rebuilding your whole sense of self, Becca letting Ryan back into her life was such a smack in the face.First and foremost, can we please stop using all these basic ass names because I was so confused for like 75% of the book.