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This book is psychological horror. The insidious way Strane manipulates Vanessa to push the idea that she isn’t a victim that he didn’t hurt her. The way he desperately tries to make sure even when she is an adult and should identify how awful the relationship was between them that she still thinks of herself as willing how he tries to cover up his abuse as love. How perfect and complex Vanessa’s victimhood is