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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.0
'"Vanessa", she says gently, "You didn't ask for that. You were just trying to go to school."'
This one hurt. The prose hooked me and there were times that I couldn't stop reading (I've spent the last three hours binging the final stretch), but the writing felt so *real* at times that I could feel my mood dropping with every word. Vanessa felt authentic to me, in a way that a book character hasn't felt to me in a long time. I could see a lot of myself in her, which I guess is why so many of the heavier scenes hit me so hard. Even though I will never meet her, my heart aches for her all the same. The graphic accounts of her abuse will haunt me, but I will also remember the first tentative steps taken by her towards her future.
This one hurt. The prose hooked me and there were times that I couldn't stop reading (I've spent the last three hours binging the final stretch), but the writing felt so *real* at times that I could feel my mood dropping with every word. Vanessa felt authentic to me, in a way that a book character hasn't felt to me in a long time. I could see a lot of myself in her, which I guess is why so many of the heavier scenes hit me so hard. Even though I will never meet her, my heart aches for her all the same. The graphic accounts of her abuse will haunt me, but I will also remember the first tentative steps taken by her towards her future.