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Review by
Tiphaine M, Reviewer
That's a very extremely big no for me.
The message could have been done better with a more contemporary drama in high school without all the plane crash and survival on deserted island, with a side of thriller. The "someone is here for revenge" happens only at the 46% mark, that's too long. The story is dragged on, the characters are one dimensional as much as I thought they all were pretty much the same, we got the whoddunit with a big message that basically happens out of nowhere because it suddenly change the book's plot. And I just finished the book and I don't even recall them being actually rescued at the end?? It's so blurry.
And yeah it's a big nope: I completely disagree with how the message of this book was done. I'm going to explain better in a spoiler-y way but to be quick and non-spoilery: acts against the crash's survivors are NOT justified AT ALL, and the person who done it had NO REASONS to do all of this, it's sick and they need mental help. Also as it doesn't says in th blurb: BIG TW for rape, sexual assault and harassment.
!! SPOILER STARTS [[[[[ So, let me explain. The message for this book is all about the rape and the blamming of rape victims, not trusting them, how women can feel on a daily basis, being scared and all, etc.
BUT. We're clearly saying here, through how this message has been done, that it's completly justified to try to hurt and even kill someone (even an innocent person) because you've been raped??? NO. HELL NO!!
There's NO justifications at all for a rape victim (and they are indeed a victim, let's be clear) to act as revenge to someone and try to hurt/kill them just because they're here, on that island, with them. They may have done sexist and disgusting jokes (he can be a total a***ole there's no reason for him to be victim of that) or just thinking the rape victim's was happy the last time they saw them, or just never saw anything, they DON'T deserve being victims of attempted murder. Big no.
Really nothing was ok here. The message could have gone better if they talked about it over a firepit instead of doing horrible things to them to "show them how that feels" ??? The rape victim is a 100% a victim. But the others are also victims, and the way it was told here was completely disregarding the attempted murder victims because they're men and some of them are d*cks. ]]]]] SPOILER ENDS !!
I'm sorry but no, this book is almost saying that vengence is justified, that the attempted murders (because they are) are justified, we don't talk at all that the rape victim needs help for their mental state, they could have snapped because of being on the island and need help, we don't even know what happens to them at the end (or it's said but it's too blurry to be noticed).
I think it's extremely toxic specially comming from an author who are known to be a gender equality activist...
The message could have been done better with a more contemporary drama in high school without all the plane crash and survival on deserted island, with a side of thriller. The "someone is here for revenge" happens only at the 46% mark, that's too long. The story is dragged on, the characters are one dimensional as much as I thought they all were pretty much the same, we got the whoddunit with a big message that basically happens out of nowhere because it suddenly change the book's plot. And I just finished the book and I don't even recall them being actually rescued at the end?? It's so blurry.
And yeah it's a big nope: I completely disagree with how the message of this book was done. I'm going to explain better in a spoiler-y way but to be quick and non-spoilery: acts against the crash's survivors are NOT justified AT ALL, and the person who done it had NO REASONS to do all of this, it's sick and they need mental help. Also as it doesn't says in th blurb: BIG TW for rape, sexual assault and harassment.
!! SPOILER STARTS [[[[[ So, let me explain. The message for this book is all about the rape and the blamming of rape victims, not trusting them, how women can feel on a daily basis, being scared and all, etc.
BUT. We're clearly saying here, through how this message has been done, that it's completly justified to try to hurt and even kill someone (even an innocent person) because you've been raped??? NO. HELL NO!!
There's NO justifications at all for a rape victim (and they are indeed a victim, let's be clear) to act as revenge to someone and try to hurt/kill them just because they're here, on that island, with them. They may have done sexist and disgusting jokes (he can be a total a***ole there's no reason for him to be victim of that) or just thinking the rape victim's was happy the last time they saw them, or just never saw anything, they DON'T deserve being victims of attempted murder. Big no.
Really nothing was ok here. The message could have gone better if they talked about it over a firepit instead of doing horrible things to them to "show them how that feels" ??? The rape victim is a 100% a victim. But the others are also victims, and the way it was told here was completely disregarding the attempted murder victims because they're men and some of them are d*cks. ]]]]] SPOILER ENDS !!
I'm sorry but no, this book is almost saying that vengence is justified, that the attempted murders (because they are) are justified, we don't talk at all that the rape victim needs help for their mental state, they could have snapped because of being on the island and need help, we don't even know what happens to them at the end (or it's said but it's too blurry to be noticed).
I think it's extremely toxic specially comming from an author who are known to be a gender equality activist...
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