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hans_cosy_corner's review
1.0
DNF - I’ll have a review up soon for this one on my blog but it just really wasn’t my cup of tea. I pushed on, kept going through a writing style that didn’t click with me (it’s so wordy and overly descriptive with a lot of ‘and then she did this, and then he did that) but I just can’t read a book with this much sexual assault. I don’t understand how it hasn’t been mentioned in any of the other reviews. The book itself throws you right in there with an allusion to child rape which was unexpected and entirely not needed. We head into the second chapter where suddenly the mother is being raped on a table. Our protagonist then runs into the town where someone else is being raped - and then gets captured... where she herself is raped. I understand that sometimes sexual assault is possibly necessary to a storyline, say if someone is to then overcome it; but don’t understand why the act has to be written - apart from shock value. As we get into later chapters we come across yet another woman who was demure, gentle...and raped. We find an injured woman who was raped. We’re told of a random woman in a town who was raped, and the list goes on. Other things can happen to someone. Every time a woman within the book was caught, captured etc, petticoats were instantly being wrestled with and every man in the vicinity had himself ready to go - it was too much; and as a reader really took me out of the story.
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