A review by cedence
Min mørke Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

4.0

This book got me bad. I'ts been a month since I read it, and I still don't know how to review it. It was dark and it was decending into that darkness for the majority of the book. Yet, it tells such an important tale following a young girl being groomed and sexually assaulted by a teacher - at school, but also how it stays with her and deeply ingrains itself in her life and everything she consider herself to be during adulthood. It offered a lot of insight into the manipulation, misbeliefs, and just naivete of young age that led to what happened when the adult in place misuses their power, and others choose to look away. As well, having to recon with what happened to you that you don't want to face for what it was - and that the timetable for that doesn't necessarily match media (this one specifically deals with the rise of #MeToo). 

I was surprised from the first page of this book because I expected the mc to no longer be in contact with her teacher. But it set the tone, and I found myself wishing this book turned toward something better each time it took a worse turn.


Those were my messy thoughts for now.
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