A review by lilsuccubus
Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Lundy Bancroft, JAC Patrissi

1.25

After months of struggling to read this book, I gave up around 1/3 in. Maybe I'm just not the correct demographic, since I left my abuser many months ago. Perhaps this book has more worth to someone who is being mistreated by their partner but doesn't understand what is happening. Although there are some sentences and passages with good insight, overall I find it hard to believe Lundy Bancroft had much involvement in writing this book; his main famous work is so much better than this. This book is missing references where they would make a difference. The exercises are extremely cringey. The book overall is disorganized and horribly topical/shallow. It starts to get confusing and more poorly written after about the first hundred pages. I just would not recommend this book to anyone. Read Bancroft's book "Why Does He Do That?" instead.