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A review by celinbean
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
challenging
dark
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
“In the end, the courage of women can’t be stamped out. And stories—the big ones, the true ones—can be caught but never killed.”
the bar for men is so low that it’s basically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here they are, limbo dancing with the devil
this was a very powerful book and i admire everyone who risked so much to finally get this story out. i honestly went into this somewhat blind. I knew about weinstein and what he had done but not much more. I had to google ronan farrow and read up about the whole story a little more while reading this. there were also a Lot of names to keep track of that are probably very easy to follow when you live in the states and keep up with the media and networks. But for me as a non American it took me awhile to get the names straight. this was still a well written and engaging account of how the weinstein story got published and what that process revealed about the silence around powerful predators.
i also listened to the audiobook and you can tell that farrow has done podcasts before. there was music played at the end of every part and he had different voices for different people he quoted. overall felt like a true crime podcast at times and i mean that in a very positive way
the bar for men is so low that it’s basically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here they are, limbo dancing with the devil
this was a very powerful book and i admire everyone who risked so much to finally get this story out. i honestly went into this somewhat blind. I knew about weinstein and what he had done but not much more. I had to google ronan farrow and read up about the whole story a little more while reading this. there were also a Lot of names to keep track of that are probably very easy to follow when you live in the states and keep up with the media and networks. But for me as a non American it took me awhile to get the names straight. this was still a well written and engaging account of how the weinstein story got published and what that process revealed about the silence around powerful predators.
i also listened to the audiobook and you can tell that farrow has done podcasts before. there was music played at the end of every part and he had different voices for different people he quoted. overall felt like a true crime podcast at times and i mean that in a very positive way
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual harassment