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

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I’m glad to hear that she was allowed to speak in Canada following the woke campaign to try and stop her.

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.To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Murad lost her mother and six brothers in the massacre, and was subsequently taken by the militants, along with hundreds of other young women and girls to be sold and used as sex slaves. Telling my story of first surviving genocide and then as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know. But it also made us targets of persecution by larger groups, from the Ottomans to Saddam’s Baathists, who attacked us or tried to coerce us into pledging our loyalty to them.

As Murad reiterates, though, nothing is more cathartic for victims of violence than knowing that their offenders are being brought to justice for their crimes – and that is how the international community should start making reparations to the Yazidis. Provided the reader can accept the rules of the horror genre – and if you can’t remember them, don’t worry because Rachel will remind you – this is a fun, twisty, deliciously demented rollercoaster ride.

As a sabiyya (sex slave, plural sabaya), Nadia was repeatedly sold, traded, and raped by members of ISIS. Told in three parts, Nadia begins her autobiography in Kocho, where she grew up and had imagined the setting for the rest of her life.