byashleylamar's review
4.0
I'm not even going to try to lie, I cried like a baby reading this book. It was amazingly written and heartbreaking from beginning to end. Rachel was sold in to a life of prostitution after she ran away to Germany as a teenager. She finally escaped after nearly being beaten to death and found a new life living in New York where she founded a non-profit working with girls in a similar situation. Readers are introduced to girl after girl and it's a very somber read which will break your heart over and over again. It's also a book that every woman should read because it's a problem that must be addressed.
aliahw13's review
5.0
If there is a book that everyone should read in 2018, it's this one.
Everyone needs to read and understand the struggles that commercially sexually exploited girls as young as 10 years old are going through RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. And maybe reading this book will help us all do what we can to make it stop.
Rachel Lloyd beautifully explains her story and the heartbreaking stories of dozens of young girls that she's counseled through the horrors of the commercial sex industry. It's not boring or filled with too much legal jargon so that you can't understand exactly where she's coming from and what needs to change.
This book will break down all of the stigmas and preconceived notions of "child prostitutes," trafficked children, pimps and more.
All I can say is it's a MUST read
Everyone needs to read and understand the struggles that commercially sexually exploited girls as young as 10 years old are going through RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA. And maybe reading this book will help us all do what we can to make it stop.
Rachel Lloyd beautifully explains her story and the heartbreaking stories of dozens of young girls that she's counseled through the horrors of the commercial sex industry. It's not boring or filled with too much legal jargon so that you can't understand exactly where she's coming from and what needs to change.
This book will break down all of the stigmas and preconceived notions of "child prostitutes," trafficked children, pimps and more.
All I can say is it's a MUST read
lilacwhisker's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.0
an eye-opening book! a little amateur in the way it is written, but overall a good read
rallisaurus's review
5.0
This book is amazing. It made me furious, it made me cry, and on occasion, it even made me smile. But mostly with the fury and the crying. Just read it already.
iamchloels's review
5.0
Ouch. This book hurts to read. I set it down multiple times, but I couldn’t fathom not picking it back up. Fabulous. Absolutely fabulous.
mfox0402's review
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
Really powerful story and perspective.
alexblackreads's review
3.0
This is one of those books that's so full of tragedy you almost start growing numb to it, only to be horrified further the next page. It definitely had me tearing up over some of Lloyd's history or the specific stories of a few girls she worked with.
Overall, though, I wasn't hugely fond of the structure of the book. It's split pretty evenly between Lloyd's memoir, her current work with a nonprofit to help sex trafficking victims, and general information (statistics, facts, what have you) on sex trafficking. I kind of felt like I'd have rather she just picked one of those topics to focus on and used the other two to supplement. Since it all felt fairly equal, I constantly felt like I wasn't getting the depth on any of those subjects that I wanted. My copy was only about 250 pages total, which means about 80 pages for each topic. That's not a whole lot of time.
I think it's a worthwhile book if you're interested in the subject. Definitely moving, and I love a book that moves me. I wish I'd adored this book, but I do think it just fell a little flat for my tastes. I'd still wholeheartedly recommend it, though. Perhaps not a favorite, but I'm glad I picked it up.
Overall, though, I wasn't hugely fond of the structure of the book. It's split pretty evenly between Lloyd's memoir, her current work with a nonprofit to help sex trafficking victims, and general information (statistics, facts, what have you) on sex trafficking. I kind of felt like I'd have rather she just picked one of those topics to focus on and used the other two to supplement. Since it all felt fairly equal, I constantly felt like I wasn't getting the depth on any of those subjects that I wanted. My copy was only about 250 pages total, which means about 80 pages for each topic. That's not a whole lot of time.
I think it's a worthwhile book if you're interested in the subject. Definitely moving, and I love a book that moves me. I wish I'd adored this book, but I do think it just fell a little flat for my tastes. I'd still wholeheartedly recommend it, though. Perhaps not a favorite, but I'm glad I picked it up.