RaveIrish ExaminerCan you wholeheartedly enjoy something, but find it deeply uncomfortable? Love Me Back, the debut novel by Texas-born Merritt Tierce, is proof that you can ... as [Marie] crashes and battles through life, Tierce’s pacey prose pulls you along with her. There’s no pausing for apologies, or sentimental explanations, and no hero comes along and makes everything better. It’s an odd contradiction, as a reader, to wish a story was different — for Marie’s life to be different — while at the same time lapping up its brilliance.
