Books you should be reading: Deeper by Robin York

Deeper by Robin York
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book literally blew me away. I picked it up after seeing someone tweet about Robin York doing a blog about writing the tough stuff. I thought to myself, what tough stuff? The blog article was about revenge porn, something I had seen on the news before and always managed to break my heart just seeing it. Being a part of the military community, you see it really often. Joes against Hoes, Barracks Bunnies, crap like that, all with the same idea. Send in photos and your sob story of how someone did you wrong and "save" your battle buddies from the horror. Except they don't have to prove anything. They can just send it in with their testimony and basically wreck some girls reputation whether its deserved or not.

So of course I had to pick up this book. I wanted to see how it was handled. The very first chapter I was already crying. Robin York pulls you inside this character and lets you see, no, forces you to see what one selfish thoughtless act from someone this girl once trusted completely ruined her. it was hard to read to tell you the truth. But this story isn't about what happened to Caroline. This story is about how Caroline became her own heroine. How she, with the help of the amazing West who is his own big ass ball of fuckedupedness (it's a word, deal with it) grew out of being a victim and became someone stronger than what happened to her. This story should resonate with anyone who has been a victim of sexual assault because really what else is revenge porn but an assault?

This isn't light reading. This isn't feel good reading. This is MAKE YOU FEEL reading because you will. Only the most soulless hardened shell on earth could read this book and not feel. But, you should read this book. And it should make you mad. And it should make you want to DO something about it. Like write your congressman and demand that laws be put into place to protect people. yeah, this book gives you those kind of feels. Linger in the back of your mind and shock you kind of feels.

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