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Tatum is living with her partner in Chile and has a settled life when she receives a call from a journalist to rehash her past. For a decade, she had a relationship with an author that started with a fan letter. This book breezes back and forth between the past and present to tell her side of the story and what she has been through at the hands of her idol. I feel that this book did a good job exploring a relationship that is not only toxic, but also exhibits a power dynamic at play.
Tatum was a well developed character that is very complex and provides the brunt of what this relationship was like and how she was completely disarmed and lost her autonomy to the whims of this person that she not only admired, but was intensely in love with. I felt this book offers something different when it comes to manipulation and control in a relationship. This book is definitely worth reading and I will remember this ending for quite some time. Thanks for the ARC, BookishFirst.