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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
3.0

DNF because I can’t do this shit, this is repulsive and frankly i’m disgusted. Nothing personal for the author, though, but ... yeah no.

(Edit) okay lads, i’m here again two days later after the initial shock was over. Decided to give the book another go, finished it in one sitting. I still have mixed feelings about it, though.
Judging from past experiences, I don’t respond well to books like this, the moment I catch sight of child ab*se I just always nope the fuck out because i’m reading books to have a good time, not to traumatize myself and give myself a nightmare, and frankly this book is EXTREMELY disturbing. Again, it’s EXTREMELY DISTURBING. there i put that in bold so that you’ll see it.
If you know me, I don’t read book’s summary (ever) and this book made me realise that I might have to start doing that, cause fucking hell, this book almost gave me a heart attack.
It gets explicit and that’s literally the last thing i wanted to find here. I catch myself rocking back and forth and just saying “no, no, no, this is not happening” so often just because.., yeah it’s that kind of book. I’m not sure what the point is, shock value?? Or something like that.
The writing style is OK, it’s bearable for me (unlike this disjointed review, amirite? In my defense I just spent hours reading this, my brains are leaking out of my ears and it’s now 4 in the morning). I saw the other reviews and a lot of people find the characters boring and there are too many literature references that it gets