What readers say
4.5/5 ⭐️ multiple women, connected by sex scandals with the same powerful man, are sent away to a remote labor camp in australia. their heads are shaved, their hands are cuffed, and they are clipped to one another by a metal chain, forced to do manual labor, fed little to no protein, whipped with batons by two men in charged. there are many of them there, and they whisper through the night in their dog kennel sleeping quarters trying to piece together what brought them all here. we watch the girls grow further apart from their former selves; girls who were once obsessed with money and material things now tick infested and covered in grime. as time goes on, some of them have strayed so far from the girls they once were, become so animalistic, that they can’t understand how they ever lived that life before. others yearn to return, plucking their eyebrows and prepping themselves to one day be saved from captivity. it’s commentary on humanity as a whole, how people would react when stripped of everything considered “necessary” by today’s standards, what really becomes important. the animal instinct of a man to flex his power amongst a group of women, the female urge to revolt when taken advantage of one too many times. i actually enjoyed this book so much more than i thought i would. i thought the writing was blunt and powerful. the point is made, what happens is told- there is no fluff. i highly recommend this book.