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A review by mmingie
These Violent Delights by Victoria Namkung
2.0
It is a book that takes a difficult subject (rape in general and child molestation particularly) and presents clearly all of the ways society makes it hard on victims who come forward.
That said, I expected a novel and got a sermon. This is not a book you need to read if you already have any understanding of how rape culture works. The author does not show, she tells. Repeatedly. It felt like she was really afraid we might miss the point if she wasn't extra explicit in giving ways that every female character in the book had faced sexism and rape culture and said something witty about why it was bad.
That said, I do appreciate that she let her characters be different from each other and didn't force us to see them as angels throughout.
That said, I expected a novel and got a sermon. This is not a book you need to read if you already have any understanding of how rape culture works. The author does not show, she tells. Repeatedly. It felt like she was really afraid we might miss the point if she wasn't extra explicit in giving ways that every female character in the book had faced sexism and rape culture and said something witty about why it was bad.
That said, I do appreciate that she let her characters be different from each other and didn't force us to see them as angels throughout.