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eastofreaden 's review for:
Into the Darkest Corner
by Elizabeth Haynes
Catherine meets Lee and quickly enters an intense, rapid relationship with him. Before she realizes it, he is trying to control her in ways no one should try to control anyone, and it quickly goes downhill from there. Lee is an incredibly manipulative scumbag, and has every one of her friends skeptical of her issues with him. The abuse (mental, physical, and sexual) gets to a horrific breaking point, and he eventually ends up in prison for three years. And one day, she receives a call that he has been released from prison, and now she’s unsure if the noises she hears and the demons that haunt her are really him trying to get her again, or if it is the side effects of her trauma.
I want to tread lightly on this because it’s so easy to say that someone should’ve done something different when in an abusive relationship. It doesn’t start out that way, of course. It sneaks up on you. It can be a lot of infuriating head games, gas-lighting, and control. On the outside, it’s so easy to say, “Why didn’t you just ______?” – but it’s never that simple.
So, when Catherine first begins her relationship with Lee, there were red flags that I initially questioned (why doesn’t she see how bad he is?) but I tried to look at it from Catherine’s POV. A new guy, all his attention on her, she’s been single for a while, and it feels nice. We can be our own worst enemies; we can internally turn a blind eye to things and make ourselves see what we WANT to see rather than what we SHOULD see.
It wasn’t the best written book, but it did keep me intrigued. I wanted to know if it really was him that moved things in her apartment. I really wanted to know if she would be her own hero. There were also things that I SWORE were going to happen that didn’t, so it wasn’t as predictable as I expected.
I want to tread lightly on this because it’s so easy to say that someone should’ve done something different when in an abusive relationship. It doesn’t start out that way, of course. It sneaks up on you. It can be a lot of infuriating head games, gas-lighting, and control. On the outside, it’s so easy to say, “Why didn’t you just ______?” – but it’s never that simple.
So, when Catherine first begins her relationship with Lee, there were red flags that I initially questioned (why doesn’t she see how bad he is?) but I tried to look at it from Catherine’s POV. A new guy, all his attention on her, she’s been single for a while, and it feels nice. We can be our own worst enemies; we can internally turn a blind eye to things and make ourselves see what we WANT to see rather than what we SHOULD see.
It wasn’t the best written book, but it did keep me intrigued. I wanted to know if it really was him that moved things in her apartment. I really wanted to know if she would be her own hero. There were also things that I SWORE were going to happen that didn’t, so it wasn’t as predictable as I expected.