Honestly how can a person be so willing to make herself so small to make a man happy s
Some parts were very challenging to read through (page 262).

Cieran is horrid for his ability to make her feel worthless simply by ignoring her, and he blatantly thought he was better than everyone else 'because he's an artist'.

It was written remarkably well and her though development for justifying abuse was so clear. 

The manic thoughts made her such an unreliable narrator I constantly questioned if the severity of the abuse was magnified by her incessant need to be loved (and magnified by the panic of not being loved after an argument).

The ending was very abrupt and her character arc felt very incomplete and nothing was learned from the story; it felt like I was reading her diaries and the retrospective Athens chapters didn’t show growth from the abuse and from her own (obvious) personality disorder.

VERY strong themes of: longing, obsession, lust, desire, pain, self-harm, love, friendship, admiration, desperation