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:/ I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact that these sexual violent instances were based on true events. He also created the main character as a 90 pound small girl and empowered her to make up for the fact that the writer for his entire life felt guilty that he didn't report his friends for sexually degrading an innocent girl in front of his very eyes.

It's a message that even small girls don't have to feel weak. No girl has to feel weak or be in a position where they should have to let go of being degraded. Naturally, he takes some revenge scenes to the extreme, but someone who is disturbed, raped and taken advantage of is more likely to inflict that sort of revenge, depending on the character.

It's real. All of gruesome rapes are based on real cases.

In conclusion, it's not as though it's made-up and needless violence.

Interesting, wide-ranging response to the question of whether a parent should allow their 15 year old to read adult material. Makes me wonder if a more refined rating system would be helpful for all. Writers could direct their writing to the appropriate audience. For example, I've got a novel coming out that is definitely for adults, not teenagers and my intention is for adults to read the novel, not teenagers. And I'm writing a fantasy for older YA (16+). I definitely don't want a 12 year old to pick up the book. From a parent's perspective, they'd have additional information to use, wherever they are on the spectrum of restrict content to allowing content. And readers would have a better idea of what they are getting into. Depending on a person's history, unanticipated scenes of violence could be extremely disturbing and overwhelming. As a writer, I want to move my readers, but I'm not interested in bludgeoning them to death.