Don’t understand It Ends With Us being a bestseller

I don’t understand why It Ends With Us has such high reviews. And I definitely don’t understand how it could be seriously called a feminist book.

You can literally predict the books ending when reading the first couple chapters.

All the way until the first time the main character gets hit by her boyfriend halfway the book (after that it becomes a novel about her going thru domestic abuse by the hands of her partner) it’s a story about a girl (with an abusive childhood) who, when she’s of post college age,after one encounter on a roof top after conveniently the father already died basically hooks the most sexiest and rich man that changes his ways from being an eternal playboy to a loyal and devoted boyfriend all because supposedly he’s so enamoured with her. You know, Mr. Unattainable making 7 figures suddenly changes his entirely personality and ways over the course of like 3-4 book months…. It’s just SO unlikely and it feels like a cheap soft porn novella you’d buy secretly at a supermarket.
She also launches a successful business and befriends the hot guys sister as her bestie who works for her for FREE because oh hey she is ALSO rich beyond her years and so the protagonist truly has a picture perfect life with absolutely no real character development until she herself gets hit.

I feel like the whole Disney Princess perfect life after she moved out her childhood home up to the point of the first beating somehow cheapens the whole domestic abuse theme. It’s like the writer was afraid that if the characters were written more realistically it would’ve been unlikely for the protagonist to have stayed in that relationship after the first beating.

But that’s exactly the thing, women stay in domestic abuse dynamics in relationship that we’re far worse to begin with.

So again despite the adult themes it reads like a book written for teenagers oogling over McDreamy and “how long until they’re gonna have the hot sex”. Stuff happening in “perfect” sequence. Blah I don’t even know what to write any more it just left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

by look_at_the_eyes