a haunting exploration of the patriarchy, systematic oppression and exploitation, and the horror of girlhood. not womanhood, because these girls never got the chance to experience it. i love that the author doesn't shy from nuances, showing how the men and women who want to know the truth and want to escape the system are silenced as a result. how everyone else takes mental shortcuts to avoid confronting their own depravity and complicity. how the rapist doesn't care until it's his own daughter. how girls fight and betray one another for the dream of romance and oppulence and nobility. how girls love and defend and support each other whenever they can, even while dying. every chapter is horrifying and well-written, and the author is adept at making my heart drop the same way at the end of each.
from one writer to another, it's kinda hilarious that the author intended to base this on anne of green gables (wonderful series). i get how plot bunnies can get away from us, and how research and further contemplation on the subject matter practically force our hands to write something completely different. I've thought "it'll just be a quick fluffy oneshot!!! A would be doing this, B would be doing that... oh but then B would.... then how can A justify.... oh great now i have to plot out a total overhaul of the justice system" one too many times lmao
a haunting exploration of the patriarchy, systematic oppression and exploitation, and the horror of girlhood. not womanhood, because these girls never got the chance to experience it. i love that the author doesn't shy from nuances, showing how the men and women who want to know the truth and want to escape the system are silenced as a result. how everyone else takes mental shortcuts to avoid confronting their own depravity and complicity. how the rapist doesn't care until it's his own daughter. how girls fight and betray one another for the dream of romance and oppulence and nobility. how girls love and defend and support each other whenever they can, even while dying. every chapter is horrifying and well-written, and the author is adept at making my heart drop the same way at the end of each.
from one writer to another, it's kinda hilarious that the author intended to base this on anne of green gables (wonderful series). i get how plot bunnies can get away from us, and how research and further contemplation on the subject matter practically force our hands to write something completely different. I've thought "it'll just be a quick fluffy oneshot!!! A would be doing this, B would be doing that... oh but then B would.... then how can A justify.... oh great now i have to plot out a total overhaul of the justice system" one too many times lmao