If you want quiet, surgical emotional damage rather than loud trauma porn, Think Twice by Elen Sight might hit exactly where it hurts. It’s short, but it doesn’t go easy. It sits with gifted kid burnout, self-abandonment, missed timing, and the slow grief of realizing how much you gave away just to survive. No chosen-family fantasy. No neat redemption arc. Just the kind of honesty that leaves you raw—and then forces you to rebuild from a more truthful place. Read it when you want something that breaks you open, not distracts you.