[8] Trafficked: Sohpie Hayes - Review

Holy crap is this a hard book to read, and not because it deals with abuse or is too graphic to stomach. It's just so mind-bendingly weirdly written that it was literally headache inducing.

Because no one is reading these anyway, I'll echo something I read from an Amazon review. You almost don't think the story is true. The authors completely confusing decision making and circumstances. How she interacted with or even encountered her captor. It all feels...everywhere.

The first few chapters I guess are supposed to set up a backdrop under why she would behave the way she does throughout the middle of the book. Each chapter could be reduced to "I hooked, he abused me, I decided against telling anyone my circumstances." Really truly, if you can find more substance in the entire middle of the book than that, I challenge you.

And what sucks, is that this is a serious issue. This is a real life thing that happens in greater numbers and all over the world in all sorts of fucked up ways. But you'll read this and think it's like a teenager who's been caught in a lie, but no one told her she could stop talking.

If it is real, my bad. If this is what passes for how to describe and then read about it, I feel bad for people battling human trafficking.

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