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A review by maccymacd
If You Love Me: True love. True terror. True story. by Alice Keale, Jane Smith
3.0
I finished this book in just over one sitting. How horrendous. What an excruciating experience for this poor girl.
Alice has a fantastic job in an art gallery when she is introduced to one of the Senior executives there, named Joe. Recovering from a sticky breakup, Alice is flattered when Joe invites here out for a drink one night. Within a very short space of time the pair are living together and everything is blissful. That is, until Alice leaves her phone unlocked one day, and Joe finds out that before they met, Alice had an affair with a married man. All hell breaks loose. Joe is abusive, manipulative, psychopathic and just pure evil. He abuses Alice over an over again, forcing her to keep apologising for what happened before they met. He makes her do horrible things, such as shout in a full restaurant that she is a wh*re, get on a train to her parents house, then calls her back again just as she reaches there, as well as making her throw away all her jeans because she wore a pair when she started seeing the married man. By the time Alice's family and friends have a rough idea what is going on, they can't do anything, because Alice is not in a position to help herself. A really horrible and upsetting account of domestic and mental abuse by a pathetic speciman that calls himself a man. So glad that Alice was able to get her life back together at the end.
Alice has a fantastic job in an art gallery when she is introduced to one of the Senior executives there, named Joe. Recovering from a sticky breakup, Alice is flattered when Joe invites here out for a drink one night. Within a very short space of time the pair are living together and everything is blissful. That is, until Alice leaves her phone unlocked one day, and Joe finds out that before they met, Alice had an affair with a married man. All hell breaks loose. Joe is abusive, manipulative, psychopathic and just pure evil. He abuses Alice over an over again, forcing her to keep apologising for what happened before they met. He makes her do horrible things, such as shout in a full restaurant that she is a wh*re, get on a train to her parents house, then calls her back again just as she reaches there, as well as making her throw away all her jeans because she wore a pair when she started seeing the married man. By the time Alice's family and friends have a rough idea what is going on, they can't do anything, because Alice is not in a position to help herself. A really horrible and upsetting account of domestic and mental abuse by a pathetic speciman that calls himself a man. So glad that Alice was able to get her life back together at the end.