A review by nelda
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I rated this as a "five", but it's impossible to rate really.  It's not so much a piece of literature as a harrowing testimony by a survivor of genocide.  It's a heart-breaking story, recounting both the pain of one girl and a whole ethnic group of people who were targeted by religious extremists who somehow justify their evils as being sanctioned by God.  The words also point at those people who did no evil themselves yet shut their eyes and did nothing to prevent the slaughter and enslavement  of the Yazidi people.  Nadia tells her powerful story calmly and courageously.  In this way she is victorious over the ISIS butchers.   Her words will haunt me.