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A review by sarahwatanabe
The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church
3.0
3 stars
Loved the premise of this book and the last 100 pages of this book. The first 200 were VERY hard to get through and I almost DNFed this one. In the front cover we are told that Lorraine has big dreams to study astronomy and go to space but then she gets pregnant and gets sent away. However, it takes 100 pages for this to happen in the book. And it's not like we really learn much in that 100 pages except for everyone in her life is perpetuating this horrible system of shame and guilt.
Truly this book is lowkey trauma porn - it just keeps getting worse for a really long time. Even the really interesting characters like the librarian and her roommates at the house for wayward girls have so much depth to them, revealing their motivations for their actions being part of the way society has pushed them down. But it takes like 2 months of her knowing them to get there. But once all the characters' backstories become revealed (I mean some people are evil no matter how you slice it) there is so much more complexity that I felt made the book really compelling and I actually really liked it. I just don't know if it's worth fighting through 200 pages to get there.
Loved the premise of this book and the last 100 pages of this book. The first 200 were VERY hard to get through and I almost DNFed this one. In the front cover we are told that Lorraine has big dreams to study astronomy and go to space but then she gets pregnant and gets sent away. However, it takes 100 pages for this to happen in the book. And it's not like we really learn much in that 100 pages except for everyone in her life is perpetuating this horrible system of shame and guilt.
Truly this book is lowkey trauma porn - it just keeps getting worse for a really long time. Even the really interesting characters like the librarian and her roommates at the house for wayward girls have so much depth to them, revealing their motivations for their actions being part of the way society has pushed them down. But it takes like 2 months of her knowing them to get there. But once all the characters' backstories become revealed (I mean some people are evil no matter how you slice it) there is so much more complexity that I felt made the book really compelling and I actually really liked it. I just don't know if it's worth fighting through 200 pages to get there.