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notesofacrocodile 's review for:
My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
reading this novel was deeply painful, to say the least. painful and frustrating. there is nothing that really rattles a reader to their bone as a protagonist such as vanessa, who kept being dragged back into the increasingly tangled web of predatory behaviour and the malicious manipulation of her pedophile teacher. her character is not an easy one to love. but the point of her character is not to be liked either; it is to understand and empathize. to acknowledge that there is still a long way to go for people to be educated on what abuse is, and for schools and other educational institutions to put in place better policies aimed at stopping such cases from happening or to at least be able to appropriately protect the child victims.
with each page, we fall into the progressively tightening spiral of disastrous life choices and depression that vanessa is shoved head on into, with prose that successfully rises up to the challenge of narrating such a difficult and complicated story.
with each page, we fall into the progressively tightening spiral of disastrous life choices and depression that vanessa is shoved head on into, with prose that successfully rises up to the challenge of narrating such a difficult and complicated story.