Book Review: Now That You Have Seen Me by C.L. Roberts

Now That You Have Seen Me by C.L. Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5⭐
Publication date ~ January 22, 2021
Page Count ~ 220
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ some steamage

Something traumatic happened on Farrah’s 6th birthday that led to a strained relationship with her parents. Now she is 29 and seeing a very unorthodox therapist named Bonnie. Bonnie has her keep a journal and that’s how we learn most about Farrah’s life. And boy do we learn a lot.

The author describes the book as “somewhat dark, psychological mainstream fiction, bordering on chick lit (only because it is aimed more toward women than men), and may be described as Fight Club meets Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Sybil” and I agree with this assessment.

Overall, I did find it to be well written, and while it didn’t bother me, there are definitely some dark themes as it touches on (view spoiler)[racism, animal abuse (okay this one bothered me), baby death, suicide (hide spoiler)], not so dark, but notable (view spoiler)[ unwanted pregnancy, sleeping with a married man (hide spoiler)] to name a few. There were some light humor moments that balanced out the story, though.

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Book blurb:

Not all families are loving. Not all relationships end in chaos. And, sometimes, reality is a lie.

Farrah Glickman is a troubled, 29-year-old smartass who finds herself under the guardianship of her toxic parents following release from a mental health facility in Amherst, Massachusetts in 2015. She reluctantly opens up to her unorthodox (court-appointed) therapist, Bonnie, who requests she recount her story from earliest traumatic memories to most recent, out-of-control existence.

As they process the archives of her life, Farrah revisits relationships with men, friends and family, revealing an emotional void she forever endeavors to fill with a protective combination of deflective humor, casual sex, alcohol in abundance, acute denial and Jesus hallucinations. All the while, her sanity is drifting further away, and the keeper of her safely guarded history laughs as she rows the boat into dangerous, uncharted territory.

Now That You Have Seen Me is the (sometimes dark, all times funny) story of Farrah’s unforgiving, tragic, year-and-a-half journey to the bottom of her psyche, fraught with the emotional baggage of a dysfunctional childhood, a series of unhealthy relationships and a HUGE potty mouth.

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