My Dark Vanessa A Novel

Jacob Strane was fourty-two years old when he first started teaching the fifteen year old child, Vanessa Wye. Vanessa was also fifteen years old when she was being groomed by said fourty-two year old man into believing that the sexual relationship she shared with him was really love, and consentual for that matter. We follow Vanessa's thirty-two year old current-self as she, in the era of the #MeToo movement, is faced with reminders of her past. We see her struggling to go through her day as multiple women come forward with accusations of abuse against Strane. Kate Elizabeth Russell writes beautifully, she confronts the readers with the harsh truth of society and urges them to never stop thinking and start acknowledging the problems of the world we live in right now. With my whole entire heart I can tell you that "My Dark Vanessa" is a book that comes once in a lifetime and you should get ready to get uncomfortable, want to throw up but still continue reading because even though this Vanessa Wye is fictional, it is based on the authors real experiences and there is a girl who went through the exact same thing and we as a society have to change so that this never happens ever again.