The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight Against the Islamic State

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Located in Sinjar in northern Iraq, Kocho was one of a number of Yazidi villages where people formed peaceful, close-knit communities. Alternatively, we suggest that you visit your local library and request to borrow a copy from a friendly librarian. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Moldavsky’s vision of teenagers recreating horror-movie tropes to terrify their enemies fits perfectly into the classic scream-queen canon while also raising incisive questions about our current age of the performed self.I love the character of Sadie, she’s intuitive and has all the smarts, she is brave and single minded and I like the strongly evident thread of feminism throughout the book not just in her character. The other day I had caught him watching videos of Islamic State beheadings on his cell phone, the images shaking in his hand, and was surprised that he held up the phone so I could watch, too. Murad questions if anti-immigrant sentiment rising at alarming rates throughout Europe and the United States might contribute to the lack of response and even exacerbate the suffering of displaced Yazidis. However, whilst trying to start a new life she never quite escapes her past, which is a key part of the story. Speaking at Yale University in April, Murad reiterated how Western governments that had a pivotal role in destabilizing the Middle East must step up to help resettle the Yazidis in Sinjar.

Tahreem Khalied, most recently a finance support specialist at Yale University, has reviewed books for Dawn and other newspapers. At her elite high school, Rachel doesn’t fit in — until she stumbles across the Mary Shelley Club and joins in on their game. Issues of femininity, female power and independence, the idea of labelling women to keep them down, gender conflict and roles and sexual violence. I was slow getting into the story, but soon I couldn't put it down and became utterly absorbed in the plot.Whenever she can, Kerry-Ann heads to the local club with her friends – including her best friend, Amardeep. The blurb sells the book story as “Scream meets Gossip Girl with a dash of One of Us is Lying” which is an honest way of selling what is a very clever, twisting thriller which surely has an author who is a massive horror film fan. Nadia was taken to Mosul and forced, along with thousands of other Yazidi girls, into the ISIS slave trade. Nadia realized for the first time how her story, a “personal tragedy, could be someone else’s political tool.

I loved the ritual of it, the way the soft wool fell to the ground in cloudlike piles, the musky smell that took over our house, how the sheep bleated quietly, passively. They slept on pallets in our school, and each week a different family slaughtered a lamb to feed them, a huge sacrifice for the poor villagers. But they also take their love of horror to the next level - they carry out ‘Fear Tests’ where they pick a target and aim to scare them.I wish to thank Avon Books UK via Netgalley for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this novel. I loved the premise of this book, the idea of a group of horror movie fanatics getting together to design these spine-tingling fear tests. Nadia explains that a Yazidi woman would not stand for any other woman to be treated as she and the other captives have been.