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My Dark Vanessa
by Kate Elizabeth Russell
dark
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held on to for so long. You know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story. You know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it?”
I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide-open empathy.
“It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
I don't know how to put it all into words — the feelings I have towards this book. I feel like it cuts me to the core of my being and I feel so nauseous and sometimes I'm thinking that Vanessa is so callous and cruel but then I'm so overcome with love for her that I don't know what to do because she was just a kid and every line that he says is dripping with manipulation and the most cowardly self preservation I can imagine. And I've never thought of this side of things, the side of things where it feels different and they feel like they were old enough and mature enough even if they never were and now I'll never stop thinking about it. The ending had me on the verge of tears.
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it?”
I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide-open empathy.
“It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
I don't know how to put it all into words — the feelings I have towards this book. I feel like it cuts me to the core of my being and I feel so nauseous and sometimes I'm thinking that Vanessa is so callous and cruel but then I'm so overcome with love for her that I don't know what to do because she was just a kid and every line that he says is dripping with manipulation and the most cowardly self preservation I can imagine. And I've never thought of this side of things, the side of things where it feels different and they feel like they were old enough and mature enough even if they never were and now I'll never stop thinking about it. The ending had me on the verge of tears.