If You Love Me Alice Keale Books
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You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'
If You Love Me Alice Keale Books
I give this one star because it was maddening all the way through. Alice kept making excuses over and over, and the same excessive excuses of which she went into at least 30 times throughout the book for a man who was both physically and mentally torturing her and in the end, he left HER. Alice's partner writer, who I think did NOT do her book justice, neglected to point out that the Psychopath left her as soon as her SAVINGS account was bled dry. That's was why he left. Period. But it was never mentioned! The entire story is ridiculous how much she lied to those desperately trying to help her while she being tortured; how many times others came to help her and she resisted, including lying twice to the police. Either she has the WORST self-esteem, or she had tremendous lust for this man. But the sexua part was never brought into the storyline just her past infidelity. If I had helped Alice write this book I would have brought in those reasonings because the way it stands, the story makes no sense as to why she would allow someone to bite her over and over, force her to potentially be raped running naked through the streets of England, giving her skull a fracture, and to potentially murder her. Either Alice needs a lot of therapy or she and her friend wrote this book too soon. She still needs more reflection. I do hope she does a new edition because by the end of the book I did not have a drop of sympathy for her and that was disturbing for me. She left me seeing her as pathetic. I do understand how some Sociopaths/Psychopaths can overpower their victims. Still the extent to which she went, and fought to lie for him, was stupid and makes no sense. Especially since they moved in together so quickly--within a couple of weeks. Then BAM! He was the love of her life. The extent to which she'd drain her savings for a future home for his his vacations made no sense either; nothing made sense. Also why would she give over her passcodes before she cleared out all the material written about loving another man who was married that she 'on purpose' did Not tell the Psychopath boyfriend about? None of her story, of which she gave the same excuses over and over and over, made sense. I felt like i wasted my time and money. I have to say, this is a perfect example of what's called a 'Mind Fcuk', that I've ever read.Product details
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If You Love Me Alice Keale Books Reviews
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It was okay but the book feels half done. Will there be a follow up?
Hated the book only read 3\4 of it. I was angered by her stupidity.
She was as sick as he was.
Very satisfied with my purchase
I thought this book was very well written, interesting, but also frustrating given the fact that Alice being a smart, educated, successful woman couldn't readily identify Joe's pathology from the onset.
This was a scary and true tale of domestic violence, one that Alice should perhaps have waited to tell until she was healed. At the conclusion of the book, its obvious that her self-esteem is still so low that she could easily find herself in another situation like this. She knew her tormenter for only a few wwwks before the abuse started, yet still at the conclusion of the book, she sees herself as having been in love with him. It's almost like she doesn't see that what she felt in those first few weeks was lust, excitement... not love. Furthermore, she still seeks help from her mother who refuses to forgive Alice for being a childish, immature girl who made a mistake by having a relationship with a married man, the very "mistake" that was the catalyst of Joe's abuse. If her mother can't forgive her, knowing that Joe used this very incident for his excuse to torment Alice, then how will she ever forgive herself? Alice clearly needs more time and therapy to heal and learn from this experience (rightfully so) before she, herself, can truly see and reflect back to others the lessons that could help someone else find themselves out of such a horrific nightmare.
This is some of the darkest, sickest, most twisted crap I've ever read - and I've read a book about a cannibal. Alice Keale seems a fairly normal Londoner who has a good job, money in the bank, friends... but apparently a crippling and dangerous sense of low self esteem. At least in the first half of the book, she doesn't explain this. What was her upbringing like? We don't know. So it's fairly baffling when Alice starts off a whirlwind relationship with a superior at work that within weeks descends into horrific abuse and she simply refuses to see it as abuse. The abuser, Joe, starts off in the usual way love bombing and mirroring the target. He tells Alice they are soul mates, made for each other, he wants to die in her arms, blah blah, all this on the first date, mind you. Every book, movie, or piece of music Alice loves, surprise, he loves it too. Within weeks, she abandons her plan to buy her own flat, and moves in with him.
The next step in the psychopath's tool box is devalue and Alice unwittingly gives him a doozy of an excuse - when he insists that she give him the passwords to her email accounts, she does it, apparently unconcerned that she's been flirting with an ex-boyfriend, who happens to be married. This is what her psychotic boyfriend, Joe, will use to hold over her head for the brutal devalue phase. It starts with him demanding to every last minute detail of her affair with the married man, calling her mother and friends to tell them about it, and insisting she check into a psychiatric clinic. He makes her write out long lists of why he is so special, buy him 'unique' gifts that prove she loves him, take him on expensive vacations, quit her job, stop seeing her friends, and - just when you thought you've heard it all - she repeatedly has to run naked through the streets of London, all to 'prove' that she's sorry for once having been involved with a married man and lying about it. I'll admit I began to wonder if Alice was exaggerating some of his demands for the sake of a more dramatic book, that’s how crazy this stuff was and even crazier that she doesn’t seem to find it that much of a big deal.
Joe repeatedly slams her head against the floor, tries to strangle her, again makes her take him on trips she pays for, refuses to allow her to sleep, forces her to get drunk, encourages her to commit suicide, gives her an hour to 'buy special gifts' for him, depletes all of her savings, cuts off all her hair, makes her take a lie detector test, slams her head against the floor some more.... and several times bites her all over her body. BITES HER.
The pair have no children, and Alice has friends she could have turned to for help. But she keeps thinking she can turn the clock back to the time when Joe was nice to her. She even admits that Joe could have picked out a news story of some natural disaster and blamed her for it and she would have agreed. How does a person get like this? She has no theories except that Joe must have managed to brainwash her somehow. No doubt he did on some level, but after yet another horrific beating where almost kills her (again), and bites her all over her arms, stomach and breasts, and then a couple of days later asks her to marry him .... is she uncertain? wary? trepidatious? Does she think to herself, for even a split second, "Maybe I don't want to be with a man who bites me, who won't let me work or see my friends, who won't let me sleep, and makes me run naked through the streets, etc etc etc...." No.... she's ecstatic! Yep, somehow, after being bitten all over - let alone everything else - Alice still can’t wait to be Mrs. Joe. Joe will beat her to a pulp and bite her like a rabid dog and then she will say something like “I began to suspect he was a little dangerous” or “I started to feel maybe this was serious.” WHAT?! Did she grow up in a concentration camp that she saw this behavior as only little bit of a problem?! The big problem with the book is the lack of psychoanalysis and lack of detail about Alice’s childhood. Something, somewhere, went very wrong that Alice had no internal alarm bells screaming at her to run from this lunatic.
Eventually, she doesn’t leave - Joe leaves her. No doubt he’d found new supply and didn’t need Alice anymore, especially since she’d run out of money.
None of this was her fault, it was just very hard for me, an outsider, to understand her thought processes. If she was scared to leave him because he might kill her, I could understand this better. But she doesn’t WANT to leave him. Through it all, she only discusses her continued love for him. I just don’t know how you can love a man who bites into you like a donut. Maybe, as she says a couple of times, at this point she had no thoughts, they had all been beaten out of her. I imagine cults and terrorists groups do something similar. I hope Alice has gotten lots of professional help or she is likely to fall back into a similar relationship again. And I really hope she has found some peace. And I hope this lunatic Joe dies somehow because you know absolutely he’s going to put more women through the same thing and eventually kill one or more.
I give this one star because it was maddening all the way through. Alice kept making excuses over and over, and the same excessive excuses of which she went into at least 30 times throughout the book for a man who was both physically and mentally torturing her and in the end, he left HER. Alice's partner writer, who I think did NOT do her book justice, neglected to point out that the Psychopath left her as soon as her SAVINGS account was bled dry. That's was why he left. Period. But it was never mentioned! The entire story is ridiculous how much she lied to those desperately trying to help her while she being tortured; how many times others came to help her and she resisted, including lying twice to the police. Either she has the WORST self-esteem, or she had tremendous lust for this man. But the sexua part was never brought into the storyline just her past infidelity. If I had helped Alice write this book I would have brought in those reasonings because the way it stands, the story makes no sense as to why she would allow someone to bite her over and over, force her to potentially be raped running naked through the streets of England, giving her skull a fracture, and to potentially murder her. Either Alice needs a lot of therapy or she and her friend wrote this book too soon. She still needs more reflection. I do hope she does a new edition because by the end of the book I did not have a drop of sympathy for her and that was disturbing for me. She left me seeing her as pathetic. I do understand how some Sociopaths/Psychopaths can overpower their victims. Still the extent to which she went, and fought to lie for him, was stupid and makes no sense. Especially since they moved in together so quickly--within a couple of weeks. Then BAM! He was the love of her life. The extent to which she'd drain her savings for a future home for his his vacations made no sense either; nothing made sense. Also why would she give over her passcodes before she cleared out all the material written about loving another man who was married that she 'on purpose' did Not tell the Psychopath boyfriend about? None of her story, of which she gave the same excuses over and over and over, made sense. I felt like i wasted my time and money. I have to say, this is a perfect example of what's called a 'Mind Fcuk', that I've ever read.
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