A Dark Force: 20 Years with a Covert Narcissist by Erin Riley

A Dark Force: 20 Years with a Covert Narcissist Reviews

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  Christine N

  This book was such an unbelievably insightful book for me to read. Having a dear friend who had gone through this type of experience in her life, I unfortunately knew that a narcissist will go to great lengths to completely control their partner and their lives. And as
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  Stay Steady

  This book is both frighteningly real and funny. Reading it I felt like I was a childhood friend of Erin who got to peek over her shoulder on a roller coaster of a life. I love a good story and one out of real life with all its bizarre coincidences and "can you believe
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  Sabrina

  Humor and irony are perhaps the only way to make such a painful subject as living with a narcissist as engaging as Erin Riley’s story in A Dark Force: 20 Years with a Covert Narcissist. Erin grabs you from the start; yet somehow protects you from the deepest pain she must
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  Mike McCarthy

  I started with the free sample and had to get the whole thing. Read this on the beach and had to make it to the end even after the sun had set. I found the combination of the family dynamics, relationship with the covert narcissist, and Erin's amazing delivery of this
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  Kelly Harper

  I could not put this book down! Talk about a compelling read! I felt like I was sitting across the table from a dear old friend catching up only to hear that she had been suffering in silence and confusion for nearly 20 years, married to a covert narcissist. This
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  LS

  I wanted to read this book to help me have a better understanding about situations in my past relationships that I couldn't control or understand. Reading a story about someone else having similar experiences was helpful at making sense of things, even than going
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  Artie G

  A Dark Force, by Erin Riley, is a memoir based on the author’s life experiences, choices, nature, goals and the committed pursuit of eventually having life on a beach with a soul mate. It is a story of a woman determined to help heal a man, who, due to his own life
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  RB

  I literally could not put this book down. The author holds nothing back from her "challenging" childhood to the horrendous way she was treated by the man she loved. I found myself routing for her throughout the book, hoping that the next page turn would reveal some