Notes
Just finished this harrowing book and I'm not sure whether I want to scream or cry or puke or reaffirm my long-held suspicion that Sheri S. Tepper had it right in "The Gate to Women's Country." Yes, I know 'not all men.' But...
Women are just not safe around men, and that's a hard thing for both women AND men. It's true, what's generally attributed to Margaret Atwood: Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them.
It's been ten years since "Me Too," when a lot of women finally got the nerve and the support to speak truth to male power, but it seems that nothing's really changed. Consider the French community rape case. Consider the Cornell rape case, where ketamine, the "black hole" anesthetic, was used so that the victim didn't remember what had happened until it began to come back to her later. Karin Slaughter examines the same territory but with doctors, which somehow makes it incrementally worse. Rohypnol and ketamine - Rape and amnesia. And women left to be damaged and confused and know the truth but be unable to get men to believe her. The other men, I mean. The "not all men."
Anyway, not a pleasant read but a propulsive one. And it's Will Trent, the dyslexic detective, who I started liking as a character even more when he showed up on TV, now available streaming. His story continues in quite a few of Slaughter's books.
Women are just not safe around men, and that's a hard thing for both women AND men. It's true, what's generally attributed to Margaret Atwood: Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them.
It's been ten years since "Me Too," when a lot of women finally got the nerve and the support to speak truth to male power, but it seems that nothing's really changed. Consider the French community rape case. Consider the Cornell rape case, where ketamine, the "black hole" anesthetic, was used so that the victim didn't remember what had happened until it began to come back to her later. Karin Slaughter examines the same territory but with doctors, which somehow makes it incrementally worse. Rohypnol and ketamine - Rape and amnesia. And women left to be damaged and confused and know the truth but be unable to get men to believe her. The other men, I mean. The "not all men."
Anyway, not a pleasant read but a propulsive one. And it's Will Trent, the dyslexic detective, who I started liking as a character even more when he showed up on TV, now available streaming. His story continues in quite a few of Slaughter's books.