From the start you can tell this story is not fiction!Caletti shows you that sometime love isn't really live at all but an obsession. 
 I could understand where Clara was coming from when she herself started to agree with Christians negative criticisms....When she still loved Christian but also hated him at the same time!...He would do say something awful to Clara and then ask for forgiveness and look hurt and weak.Christian had a very powerful weapon over Clara which was Hurt. Her dad even told her that hurt is prob a better weapon than most because it doest look like on (pg165).Love isn't always simple. It's nice to feel wanted, desired, or feel that a guy is so in to you that he's jealous of others (but no overboard jealous either) sometimes you can't even see how much you have changed form the person you use to be just to please your partner. 
 I liked that this book doesn't end with Christian killing himself or Clara for that matter or even him going to the psych ward because let's be truthful!...that doesn't always happen in real life!!Christian clearly will never let Clara go but she did!!...She finally met someone (Sexy sailor boy Finn Bishop)who accepted her for her and showed her she didn't have to watch what she said or did in front of him in case the mood changed because he wasn't some obsessed psycho!( who like Christian even stalked her on one of her dates with Finn)..he took things in stride want looking out to see if Clara so much as glanced at another guy while she went out with them!...Clara and Finn don't get married btw this isn't some happily ever-after story.it's ment to be realistic and it is because it end on a nice note with Clara and Finn as a couple inconclusive so one can imagine their own ending!