The fact that this book is based on true events is mostly shocking. You have to keep wondering how people can get so cruel, and how so many of these cruel people can concentrate around one single person. I also kept asking myself, why nuns (and all the other abusive people of course) - but especially the nuns, got so much pleasure from inducing pain. And how can it be, that in such 'closed societies', abusive and hurtful behavior becomes the normality of everyday life? What drives people to behave in such destructive ways? And if it is their own unhappiness, why don't they rather change their own life, instead of destroying another? The useless cruelty of people, that is not an effect of neurological defects, will puzzle me for a long time, I guess. I really wanted to rate this book five stars because of the bravery shown by the author to put down on paper all the horrible circumstances of her life. I do not know how I would have had the courage to do that if it had been my life.But part of the rating,I believe, should come from the purpose itself, and while the book was engaging, the purpose was lacking. Without a purpose rating included, it would be five stars.
What do You think about The Girl Nobody Wants (2012)?
Depressing but insight to mental illness and abuse
—DaniM
