chloe_pks 's review for:

Sadie by Courtney Summers
5.0

TW: sexual abuse, paedophilia, sexual assault, domestic abuse, child pornography

I will think about this audiobook for the rest of my life. The whole execution of this book is fantastic, and I couldn't stop listening to it; I had it on all morning because I had to know what would happen in the book's last third.

The characters, atmosphere and writing of this book were so good, with the little plot twist nearly making me cry in my kitchen, and I thought the ending was perfect, exactly the right one for a book about this subject. Honestly, this is one of those books that makes me think of the current discussion on BookTok about how when women write certain books, they are considered YA, and yet if a man had written this book it would have been an adult thriller. This, for me, is a prime example of that. If I tried, I couldn't recommend this book more, but do heed the trigger warnings!