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A review by cloudpurple
The Burning by Laura Bates
5.0
I’m not sure how to review this book. All parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, teachers and young people (and everyone else) should read it.
It was extremely well written and powerful but terrifying as well. Bates states “that everything that happens to Anna is based on the real-life experiences of students I have worked with in schools or young people who have contacted me online”
The book seems to depict a hopeless future for young people and the use of social media without any accountability to each other or wider society, and the comparison of how young women are treated 400 years ago and today is powerful and interesting but also feels hopeless like it’s never going to change.
However there is hope - Bates says in the author’s note “I want you to know change is coming...I meet young people across the country who are taking action, determined to make change”
This gives me hope
It was extremely well written and powerful but terrifying as well. Bates states “that everything that happens to Anna is based on the real-life experiences of students I have worked with in schools or young people who have contacted me online”
The book seems to depict a hopeless future for young people and the use of social media without any accountability to each other or wider society, and the comparison of how young women are treated 400 years ago and today is powerful and interesting but also feels hopeless like it’s never going to change.
However there is hope - Bates says in the author’s note “I want you to know change is coming...I meet young people across the country who are taking action, determined to make change”
This gives me hope