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A review by bottleofink
The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
3.0
There is a lot I loved about this book, but it's heavily overshadowed by using some graphic child sexual abuse against a minor character only to serve as a catalyst for a main character to leave a place. The perpetrator was never dealt with, the victims were mentioned in passing once afterwards but not present again. Very uncomfortable and weird to me.
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Abandonment