i just think it's SO weird how this author always makes her characters get sexually abused, on some level???
I mean, out of everyone (core 10), only 4 ( hugh, katie, feely and shan) haven't gone through that, and two of those don't even have their own books/backstory yet.
Post reading update on R10: Hugh literally suffers sa multiple times in this book
also, people just coming up and touching Patrick (12y old)????
And now Mark (gross) was already a rapist at 12?? That's just so messed up.
Like, I get she's trying to make the characters deeper or whatever, but it's done so badly? Half the time readers even forget it happened ex: Johnny's SA case.
Even the characters seem to forget this fact!! For example, Hughie is said to be loving and protective
he tried to protect Claire from Mark as a child but encourages his younger sister to go to a guy who tried to harass her in PUBLIC and even months after this Jamie is still spreading rumors about Claire.
It feels like shock value, not actual plot. And when it should matter like with Gerard (and Lizzie too, but we don't have her book yet)
it's barely there? Gerard's book just glosses over his abuse in, what, two chapters, then switches focus to someone else.
She'll write a whole graphic child abuse scene but skip the aftermath?? Just a time jump and zero fallout. Gibsie leave Cork for weeks and we have nothing about that time!!! Did he gave a statement against to mark? Dublin PD reopening the Mark case?
Update: The author called a book containing male child sexual abuse scenes a "filler book," and when questioned about the discrepancy between the approach to female and male child sexual abuse, she replied that she couldn't do it right because "she wasn't a boy"
Extremely important addendum: She wrote an extremely graphic scene about a male victim being raped at age 7.
But but but she didn't mean it that way 🥺👉👈
I think everyone with a minimally functional brain has the common sense not to compare a book that has > graphic scenes of child sexual abuse to "filler book"
