Rania Abouzeid

(i wish the author's note at the end was actually at the beginning. i think it would have set the scene better and really helped us understand how the author got these stories and accounts, and the book probably would have affected me more as i read it.)

this was informative, but not quite what i thought it would be, until closer to the end. there's a lot of historical information here, which i was glad to get. i thought we'd get it through the story of the girls or their families, but we get it in a more academic way. i think this is a very good book for young adults, but as an adult i wish i'd instead read her longer nonfiction book, no turning back, which i'd expect to rate higher. still, an impressive amount of clandestine reporting went into this (which i didn't realize until that author's note), and she was doing dangerous and important work.… (meer)