Girl Made of Stars faces rape culture head on. It had my stomach in knots, but I couldn’t stop turning the pages. I finished it one day–partly because Blake’s writing is captivating, partly because I was so invested in these characters that I wanted to know what happened to them, and partly to be able to walk away from this sickening situation. It’s not an easy read, emotionally. It was especially difficult to deal with the fact that Owen was not some abstract villain. He was someone that Mara thought she knew. And someone she will have to live with, and will likely still love, for the rest of her life. How can she reconcile that?

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake was reviewed @ the Lesbrary