I'm 52 pages from finishing reading one of the craziest books I've ever read. The woman in the book is so delusional. I don't know if you have ever seen a woman that will stay with a man no matter what does to her, but that's how the character Susan in this book is. The title is Always Is Not Forever by Helen Van Slyke. Its not a Wattpad book.
I don't know if its okay to talk about books that are not Wattpad books that we read, but I want to do that right now.
The book is about the emotionally & verbally abusive marriage between Susan & Richard. There is so much misogyny in this book.
Briefly, here's what all Richard does: he stops intimacy with Susan when he learns their daughter Katie is deaf, he force seduces Susan, he cheats on Susan several times, he tries to force her to have an abortion when she becomes pregnant a 2nd time. I read 400 pages of this and then just 76 pages from the end, I could barely tolerate the book.
When Richard forced seduced her, Susan gave one a speech that really angered and offended me. It was the most delusional thing I've ever read a character saying. She told him he didn't really force seduce her and that he brough her to her senses. No woman in her right mind would say that. I don't even understand how a women writer could write those lines for any character except for a insane character. I really think the author Helen Van Slyke must have been showing scorn for women when she wrote that book.
Richard has an affair with a senator's daughter, and he crashes the car their driving. A woman and her daughter die in the car he strikes. Susan says she's going to leave him, but first she has to act happy with him to save his career. She says she's leaving him 4 or 5 times, but never does.
She gets pregnant a 2nd time & everyone around her tries to force her to have an abortion. She agrees but has a miscarriage instead. Their daughter drowns while Richard is supposed to babysitting her. Susan ends up pregnant again.
Hate it
