Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

WARNING: Going to contain a few spoilers. I originally wanted to give this book 4 stars. It read well and though I enjoyed the book enough to keep reading it, it was truly a labor to do so. It was so slow paced and I found myself having to re-read pages over and over again. I'm an avid reader so it was not a lack of comprehension I would just simply glaze over. Here is my real problem and it made me want to give the book one star but I thought I wouldn't be taken seriously if I did so, so two stars it was... I AM TIRED of reading books where it is only possible for the female characters to "rise from the ashes" if they are *raped* or *beaten* especially when if you took the rape out of the story, the character would have undergone the same development and the plot actually wouldn't have changed much. There was absolutely no warning that those themes would be in this story and you don't know who is reading your novels! You could potentially be triggering survivors and that is not well played on the editor/publishers end if you fail to put that in the description. I work in a bookstore and I have read Children's books that have better developed female characters who have to suffer through trials and tribulations who: NEWS FLASH! Don't have to be raped and beaten to tell a good story. I almost did not finish this book because of the multiple rapes, and the poor writing in a particular section that almost made it sound like the author wrote a rape scene of a baby. I'm not kidding. Serious editing should have been done to that certain part in the book,and at that point I was done. I literally through my Kindle away from me because the book made me angry. Adding rape scenes don't make a novel more entertaining and I'm so angry