A review by leslielopezholder
The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

At last! A book about a court case that actually has a logical flow. AND it's easy to digest for readers of different interests, i.e. those of us who are more fiction-heavy readers can understand it and for those who are more non-fiction readers will still find interesting information in it. The issue at hand makes it all the more impactful. I learned so much from this book, from the way harm manifests in childhood sexual abuse survivors as they become adults and even about court proceedings. Yes, you learn more about Epstein and Maxwell (especially for me because I wasn't paying attention to the court case in real time), but there is so much more valuable knowledge to gain from reading this.

What brought down the score for me was the amount of repetition throughout the book got to be a nuisance by the time I finished. For example, "impeachment evidence" was explained about 3 times. Some of the final few chapters also felt like a duplication of other parts in the book.