A review by roget
I Love You, I Hate You by Elizabeth Davis

slow-paced
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This book spends a lot of time unpacking privilege, which was cool. What wasn’t cool was Victoria’s failure to truly own some of her more toxic behaviors in earnest. She’s often downright abusive towards Owen, and he’s left to take every shred of blame for mistakes—whether he’s the one responsible or not. After seeing him accept ownership for issues time and time again while she dismissed her own actions as understandable, I grew a bit jaded. She patently refuses to communicate with him, gets upset when he wants to talk things out rather than hook ip, and then blames him fully when she finds out what he wanted to communicate about. She’s just…not ready to be in a healthy relationship, frankly. She raises a lot of valid points about the advantages that Owen’s background provides, but that doesn’t give her license to treat him as poorly as she often does. 
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