Book guide
My Dark Vanessa
A woman is forced to question the story she has told herself for seventeen years.
Genre and trope pairingsLiteraryUnreliable narratorLiteraryTrauma recoveryContemporary FictionTrauma recovery
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About My Dark Vanessa
At fifteen, Vanessa Wye is groomed and sexually abused by her teacher. Years later, new accusations force her to confront the harm behind the relationship she has long remembered as love.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Medium
- Darkness
- Extreme
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- slut-shaming
- body shaming
- adult-minor relationship
- student-teacher relationship
- paedophilia
- grooming
- child sexual abuse
- rape
- statutory rape
- sexual assault
- child pornography
- emotional abuse
- gaslighting
- ptsd
- dissociation
- suicide
- substance addiction
- alcoholism
- drug use
- disordered eating
- death of a dog
