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A review by twiinklex
Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington
5.0
I'm not sure I have the words for this memoir... It's raw, it's powerful, it's cathartic and at times graphic (the author draws what is being done to her). She wrote the book as a way to process her grief and trauma, but also shared insight into how sexual grooming happens and highlighted loopholes in the legal system. The artwork equally does not hold back.
This is a bleak and depressing read, but is also healing and ends on a hopeful tone. The last scene of the author meeting her younger self made me want to cry. A lot of what she went through in the aftermath mirrors my own experiences and to see it acknowledged in a book feels somewhat validating. I feel understood.
Emily Carrington said one reason she held on to her pursuit of legal recourse despite having all the odds stacked against her was to help people. Even it's just one person. And although she did not get the justice that she was seeking, help me she did.
This is a bleak and depressing read, but is also healing and ends on a hopeful tone. The last scene of the author meeting her younger self made me want to cry. A lot of what she went through in the aftermath mirrors my own experiences and to see it acknowledged in a book feels somewhat validating. I feel understood.
Emily Carrington said one reason she held on to her pursuit of legal recourse despite having all the odds stacked against her was to help people. Even it's just one person. And although she did not get the justice that she was seeking, help me she did.