But I Love Him by Amanda GraceAmazon Link
Tonight was so much worse than anything before it.
Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap.
At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved-and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything-and everyone-in its path.
This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.
But I Love Him is an intense read, gritty and truthful. That being said the author, Amanda Grace, paints a pretty vivid picture about what’s going on within the first chapter and I wasn't sure it was something I wanted to read, yet I couldn't seem to put it down. I finished this book in less than six hours, which I guess isn’t that fast, but since I was reading at work…
Anyway, I really enjoyed the style of writing she used here. Ann’s story begins at the end and works its way back to the first day she met Connor. It was like a yearlong retrospective took place in her head as she lay on the floor of the apartment she shared with Connor, battered and broken for the last time. We saw all the moments leading up to where she was now and the small details where she says she should have known what was going to happen.
