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14 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2010 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781611762396
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
The Purity of Vengeance is best suited to readers who relish seeing the long-buried atrocities of a real historical scandal—Denmark’s 1987 forced-sterilization island for wayward women—resurface through two converging timelines of calculated revenge and dogged cold-case detection.
Description
1987: Nete Hermansen, a young woman brutally assaulted in her youth, sterilised without her consent by a fanatical surgeon, and banished to Sprogo, the island for outcast women is planning her escape and her vengeance. And soon people begin to go ...
Community Reviews
Moods
dark: 86%
mysterious: 72%
tense: 60%
emotional: 37%
challenging: 29%
sad: 26%
adventurous: 22%
funny: 11%
reflective: 7%
informative: 6%
lighthearted: 1%
Pace
Plot or character driven?
Strong character development?
Loveable characters?
Diverse cast of characters?
Flaws of characters a main focus?
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Abortion, Rape, Medical traumaModerate
Confinement, Mental illness, MiscarriageMinor
Sexual violence, Xenophobia
14 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2010 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781611762396
Format: Audio
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
The Purity of Vengeance is best suited to readers who relish seeing the long-buried atrocities of a real historical scandal—Denmark’s 1987 forced-sterilization island for wayward women—resurface through two converging timelines of calculated revenge and dogged cold-case detection.
Description
1987: Nete Hermansen, a young woman brutally assaulted in her youth, sterilised without her consent by a fanatical surgeon, and banished to Sprogo, the island for outcast women is planning her escape and her vengeance. And soon people begin to go ...
Community Reviews
Moods
dark: 86%
mysterious: 72%
tense: 60%
emotional: 37%
challenging: 29%
sad: 26%
adventurous: 22%
funny: 11%
reflective: 7%
informative: 6%
lighthearted: 1%
Pace
Plot or character driven?
Strong character development?
Loveable characters?
Diverse cast of characters?
Flaws of characters a main focus?
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Abortion, Rape, Medical traumaModerate
Confinement, Mental illness, MiscarriageMinor
Sexual violence, Xenophobia