Absolutely toxic read, but it did get me hooked on reading again. Plus, I was single at the time and it made me feel like I was in the middle of a messy and exciting relationship, just minus having to experience the trauma.
During shooting of the movie, the actual themes of the book: abuse , power, retaliation, somehow leaked into real life and Blake Lively the co star complained that the men at the set had repeatedly violated physical boundaries and made sexual and other inappropriate comments to her.
You truly truly can’t make this stuff up.
