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Although this is a fictional story, it is based on interviews and research on this particular subject. The author actually went to these countries and talked with girls and family that faced these terrible accounts. The book is about a 13 year old girl, Lakshmi, that is sold by her stepfather into sexual slavery. Her mother thought she was going to work as a maid in the city. Either way, there was not much she could have done since women have little say in what happens. Lakshmi is taken to Calcutta where horrific things were done to her and other girls. I got very emotional reading this book and had to put it down a couple of times but then would pick it up to see what would happen next. This is a very heart wrenching story. Even more so since these things really do happen. It makes you see what monsters some people can really be. It is an easy read when it comes to the book itself but a bit harder when it comes to the actual story. It can definitely be emotionally trying. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to become more aware of the atrocities that are out there in this world.

This novella was a little different for me but I enjjoyed. There’s not much of Bones and Cat, we have mostly a new vampire named Elise trying to save a human from certain death, sounds completely off the series, but we also have Mencheres helping and I decided he sounds like a normal vampire and after the events from the war, he’s not so bad. I’m not dying of love for Elise or Blake, because they are nothing compared to Bones or Vlad, but this was a nice story and more from the Night Huntress world.

Read Haig before and didn’t like his dark humor but I could pass up a chance to read about a slightly dysfunctional typical suburban family, with a bored mother, a father going through a middle age crisis – a teenage daughter with a possible eating disorder and a son at school who is being bullied; and they all just happen to be vampires. Think Interview with a Vampire meets Everyone Loves Ramon. Such a fun read.