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anneliemn's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pedophilia and Sexual assault
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicide attempt
sakisreads's review against another edition
4.0
This book, for obvious reasons, is an increasingly difficult read. When Vanessa Springora starts to realise the abuse G (I’m not putting down his full name, he doesn’t deserve it) puts her through, it is heart-wrenching and rage-inducing all at once 😫
I cannot believe G still gets applauded for his work.
Albeit it being a hard read though, I still want to give it 4 stars. It was incredible reading Vanessa’s writing. When she wrote that she would’ve wanted someone else to write it for her, but that she wouldn’t want to know how others suffered through her trauma, I got teary 🥺
4/5 stars for me, thank you ✨
(Content warnings included below!)
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, and Adult/minor relationship
skoltoaletter's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Child abuse
woolfism's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Pedophilia
Moderate: Stalking, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Misogyny
briannad4's review
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, and Adult/minor relationship
isaarusilor's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Child abuse
Moderate: Gaslighting
helenloves's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
neverlandpages4's review against another edition
5.0
• I was mesmerized by the writing from the first page and I quickly fell in love with the author’s words.
• This is such an important book that explores the topic of “daddy issues” and the children affected by it. The children that end up feeling unloved and have no parental figure to guide them in their lives and how that desperation for attention leads to bad situations and bad people.
• I already knew going into this that it would be a heartbreaking read but some things were just absolutely revolting. It made it even more difficult to read about knowing that this was a real thing. The horrific people mentioned in this book were real.
• I saw some criticism on the writing of this book and people that claimed that it was too “flowery” but I absolutely loved it. It possibly has to do with the fact that I myself write in a “flowery” style but I love purple prose and I’m a sucker for a good metaphor and & unique imagery so it wasn’t a problem for me at all.
• I’d highly recommend this to anyone that loved My Dark Vanessa or is looking for a book with beautiful writing and a lot of lessons to learn.
Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Rape, and Suicidal thoughts
edgaranjapoe's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Pedophilia
Moderate: Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Drug abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Alcoholism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Drug use, Eating disorder, Violence, and Alcohol
chiaracerniglia's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Stalking, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual harassment, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, and Sexual violence