Tigger warning: SA

I thought about not reviewing this one, but I'm going to just to offer a nod of support for anyone else who gets triggered reading stories involving sexual assault.

I hate how sexual assault is presented in this book. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, as I know SA is something people don't want to "have to deal with" and of course that's self preservation. But it's still unacceptable. Having characters discuss the woman who was assaulted so... without care, really set me off. The spectacle of the event - the setting when shes found and how the main character spoke to her were all completely terrible. The moment reads as if nothing else except the main character and her stupid parade is all that matters.

Wow, this book made me so mad.

I understand this book triggered me, and I know a lot of my anger is because of my own trauma, but survivors and victims of sexual assault deserve better. I think the tone was made worse because our protagonist was not the girl who was assaulted. Had this book been written that way it would have been better.

I DNF the book at 20%. The hints at some kind of "passerby" revenge hunter isn't it for me. To me, as a survivor, that is incredibly disrespectful.

The only way I could attempt picking this back up again is if I got confirmation that the assault isn't continued to be used so pathetically.

Thank you to the publishers for the advance copy, sorry it didn't work out this time.