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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.0

This book....wow. I knew it would be heavy and I knew it would be hard to read. But, I wasn't ready for how it made me feel. ⁣

I have had past relationships with older men and I did feel wrecked after one of them ended. So reading this book brought up some of my own romantic illusions that I had about those relationships. That's why I found it difficult to read this book for a longer stretch of time, preferring to read it in small chunks. It's one of those books that has a topic that you have to read and empathize in to fully understand it, but that you wish it wasn't necessary to have to read about at all. However, the writing is excellent and I do hope that the author writes more in the future. ⁣

I will always remember this book. I can't give it 5⭐ just because of my own reading experience and lense as I didn't LOVE it.