Stop trying to make this book be Mad Max; it’s not going to happen. No one is I realize, but there’s an embarrassing blurb on the back of the book that makes that reference. Instead, this book is about two women who vaguely recognize themselves waking up, chained, wreaked, and imprisoned in an Outback stronghold. They don’t like each other. It’s an imprisonment novel, but it’s not a captive horror movie genre type novel. This isn’t torture porn, luckily, and it’s not that ONE SCENE […]
Fearsome Women
It’s hard to miss the stories in the news these days involving men sexually assaulting or abusing women, getting a slap on the wrist, and then the women being put through hell for speaking up about their assault. The women get blamed — she was drunk, she was known to sleep around, why was she with that/those guy(s) anyway, she’s a gold digger, etc. We’ve also seen many stories over the years about married men having affairs, being contrite and then the other woman being […]