Emma Doherty

Becca McKenzie is happy-crazy, ridiculously happy.She might not have figured out what she wants to do with her life, but she has something better-Ryan Jackson-and they couldn't be more in love if they tried. He might have been pissed when she went off to a different college, but they make the long distance work because they're "Becca and Ryan", and nothing is going to break them.Until it does.Until one terrible, unforgettable night away from Ryan. Until too much drinking and one empty bedroom. Until fifteen minutes of hell completely destroys her life and leaves Becca questioning everything she's ever known.Until that night turns into a lie she can't stop-can't control.Until she said no but he didn't listen.

Four Years Later

Leah smith

** spoiler alert **
           Wtf was this. This book is so ass it took the whole fucking book for someone to finally tell Ryan what happened and this shit could have been avoided if he heard her out in the fucking beginning and didn’t run away like a little bitch. this whole book is dumb ass hell and I regret reading it this whole fucking book was about Ryan yelling and people yelling back at him like nothing else. it had the assault in one chapter and her trying to explain what happened after every one dropped her like last weeks trash like if u people could really drop someone that quickly where you guys ever even friends. And the ending was jake or whatever his name was finally telling Ryan what happens after a fucking year and her forgiving him for cursing her out multiple times because he thought she cheated and wouldn’t let her explain what actually happens.

aizea

i loved this book. it’s one of the truest and most relatable (to me anyway) things i’ve ever read about rape and the aftermath, especially becca’s thoughts. there’s no right way to be a rape victim but no other book just seemed to mirror my thoughts and my experiences the way this book happened to do. <spoiler>becca struggling to come to terms with what happened, becca blaming herself for the clothes she’d worn, becca being so selfless despite what happened, i think a lot of people see this happen and hear about it in terms of survivors but the way it’d been written really just made me feel like someone else understood yk</spoiler>like sure becca’s fictional but it just made me feel so validated seeing her go through the same struggle i had. 

i give this book 5 stars mostly based on its portrayl of the aftermath and becca’s thoughts on her being raped and mostly surrounding her struggle and her finally healing. however i’m tempted to rate this book a 4.75 because of the things below

there are just some things which i wish had been done differently. 
i wish ryan had grovelled more, like he’d fucked with her so badly when she had already been in such a fragile mental state, and sure he hadn’t known that becca had been raped but i think there were just some pointers that something had happened that he just chose not to see. i feel like this could’ve been achieved had there not been a whole 4 year time jump between the books events and the epilogue. like just somethings inbetween would’ve really shown a lot and would’ve redeemed himself to me (but i doubt any amount of grovelling could’ve truly redeemed him for me)
i also just wish she wasn’t so reliant on him. <spoiler>like the fact she only truly started to heal after he’d realized what had happened, the way only after they’d hugged did she start to feel better? i just wish she’d started to heal on her own a bit more and shown that she could’ve healed without him more yk. like she had started to heal but it was nothing compared to when he’d returned</spoiler>

Shay Rabaya

???? just an entire torture fest for the heroine and hero was able to get away with everything. it wasn't supposed to be about you, boy.

Lani 

I've never had a book that destroyed me emotionally that much and physically ever. But this one did. I’m honestly scared to reread because I might not stop crying for the next weeks... but it was still one of the best books of all time 6 stars!!!!

Four Years Later

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