Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
On Sale Date:  June 13th 2017
Pages: 368
Age Range: Young Adult

Grace doesn't have a nice life at home. Her mom is obsessed with cleaning and her stepfather Roy is a posessive, bossy and who hates her. She loves musicals and she dreams she can get out of this life in a small California town and into a more fun life in New York and Paris where she can study something artistic.But for now she just has to do with high school, where she is in the drama department when she hears that a boy named Gavin had tried to commit suicideAnd then she meets Gavin. Gavin is everything Grace wants. He is in a band and soon they fall in love. Their romance is like a rollercoaster. It starts fast and good but later on, Gavin starts to become controlling and dangerous. Soon Grace finds out their relationship is like a prison that is almost impossible to escape.

Bad Romance is a YA novel that deals with quite some serious topics. There where quite some scenes in this book that where though, and not that suitable for younger readers. Besides that this book was very gripping. Grace stayed positive altough she had to deal with a load of negativity. Her home situation is just as much a prison as her relationship with Gavin in the end. She really thinks that Gavin is her escape from home, only to figure out the is knee deep into more trouble, just the same as her mother, who is wasting away in the overcontrolling grip of her abusive stepfather.
Lucky for Grace, she has some best friends who try to help her wherever they can, and one of them really is her saving angel at the end of the book.

The point of view the author used was also interesting and original. The book is told from Grace's pov who almost uses the ''you'' form as a narration, which really worked for this book.
I just loved the writing style of the author, it makes you keep turning pages! It really made me curious for the other books by this author!

Overall a more serious YA novel with some scenes not suitable for younger teens, but definately a book worth reading!