I liked this book much more than the previous one I read by the author. Still , it was chaotic. Between the stories of a character named Julie, and facts about Saudi Arabia, it was a little strange. Like author can’t decide if she should write the experience of the women, or facts based on news, books, and life.
The novel definitely was hard to read. And the topic about forced prostitution, human trafficking, and disgusting orgies created by rich Arabic sheiks, was hard to even comprehend. How those things are still happening in 21 century? How those rich motherfuckers can get away with it all? My heart goes out to all the children and girls, women, who were kidnapped, who were lied to, who were used, than exploited, forced to sex work. And I can’t comprehend how stupid, old , religious bullshit laws and practices and traditions( because grama did it and grandma did it, and hundred women before them did it, doesn’t mean we should practice the harmful practice now in the name of a fucking religion!) are still used, and practiced today.
You know what else pisses me of? That people in power put the law in place, telling people what not to do, when they are the ones, doing all those ugly, dirty, disgusting, inhumane things, behind the closed door.
Anyway… The book woke in me a lot of emotions. The book itself maybe isn’t the greatest, but the topics and story of all those women for sure are.