My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

I wish I could unread this disturbing book about a 15 year old student and the predator-teacher that destroyed her life. You don’t need the details here, but this was one of the most disturbing, sad, frustrating books I’ve ever read. This has a lot of positive reviews and I understand that it is an important story that needs to be told, but it’s probably 75 pages too long and the ending was a letdown. I read it, because I thought it was important and I didn’t want to betray the subject matter.

373 Pages

Read by Robin Westphal