If you had to kidnap another child to save your own and then remain silent for the rest of your days, would you?
That’s the premise for this book. The main character is faced with the horrifying choice of doing what has been done to her, kidnapping another child in order to save her own. She does and then later takes vengeance on those who’ve masterminded this horrible chain letter.
This book makes me thing of movies like Compliance, where our own ethics are called into question and we’re forced to make these unimaginable choices. What do we do when we faced with the absolute worst thing that could happen to us?
Isn’t that what we sometimes do though?
Not kidnap people mind you, that’s illegal and honestly sounds like a super hassle. Not that. But we inflict on others what has been done to us?
We continue to perpetuate these traumas, these things inside of us that we don’t really want to carry anymore? Isn’t that really a thing we do?
But it’s possible to break that cycle right?
I mean, like I said, I feel like this blog is almost always about choices, about change, about wanting to change. It always cycles back to choices.
In this book we see two families make choices that end up saving a ton of people. They end up exposing the dirty underworld.