Helpful Score: 2
Deliver Me From evil is a very compelling book. Although it is a work of fiction, the theme is one that we all need to know more about--modern-day slavery of children for the purpose of prostitution.
As I came to know the characters, I was saddened by the striking contrasts in their lives--Jonathan and Leah, American teens from a loving, Christian home; Mara, a teen-age sex slave in San Diego--sold by her parents in Mexico as a young child; and Chanthra, a sex slave in Thailand.
I wanted to do more than cry for the broken children. I wanted to give them hope for a future--a future that would be denied to most of them.
This book gave me much to think about. What can I or should I be doing to combat this evil of sex slavery?
As I came to know the characters, I was saddened by the striking contrasts in their lives--Jonathan and Leah, American teens from a loving, Christian home; Mara, a teen-age sex slave in San Diego--sold by her parents in Mexico as a young child; and Chanthra, a sex slave in Thailand.
I wanted to do more than cry for the broken children. I wanted to give them hope for a future--a future that would be denied to most of them.
This book gave me much to think about. What can I or should I be doing to combat this evil of sex slavery?
Victoria T. (justicepirate) reviewed Deliver Me from Evil (Freedom, Bk 1) on + 350 more book reviews
Jonathan is about ready to graduate high school and go to Bible college. He grew up as a missionary's kid and pastor's kid but his faith is wavering a little. While on his pizza delivery to a motel, he starts to see things and learns the connections they may have to human trafficking. He can't stop thinking about it. His parents and sister also want to do something to help human trafficking in their own area.
Chanthra is in Thailand and has been in a brothel for so long and smokes her pipe of drugs to ease the pain of her abuse. When a young girl is brought into the brothel, she can't help but think of her family and her mother and God and if he cares enough for her bring in a mess that she was in.
Mara is from Mexico and has been put through sexual slavery so long by her own uncle that she thinks about how much she hates him and wants him dead all the time. She has seen so many girls come around and has to train them a bit but she hates what she has to do and wants out.
Overall, the fiction story that this is does have a lot of promise and does add up with much of the stories of human trafficking in general. The problem is this book seems to dwell on certain things so regularly that it is repeated at times while reading the book. Also the ending is so unrealistic (especially considering the thousands of news articles I have read and survivor stories and rescue stories over the near eight years of my research on the subject). It was a good encouraging story though and is done without any graphic sexual situations which I liked since it is a Christian book. I think this would be a good introduction book to sex slavery in the US to give to people.
Chanthra is in Thailand and has been in a brothel for so long and smokes her pipe of drugs to ease the pain of her abuse. When a young girl is brought into the brothel, she can't help but think of her family and her mother and God and if he cares enough for her bring in a mess that she was in.
Mara is from Mexico and has been put through sexual slavery so long by her own uncle that she thinks about how much she hates him and wants him dead all the time. She has seen so many girls come around and has to train them a bit but she hates what she has to do and wants out.
Overall, the fiction story that this is does have a lot of promise and does add up with much of the stories of human trafficking in general. The problem is this book seems to dwell on certain things so regularly that it is repeated at times while reading the book. Also the ending is so unrealistic (especially considering the thousands of news articles I have read and survivor stories and rescue stories over the near eight years of my research on the subject). It was a good encouraging story though and is done without any graphic sexual situations which I liked since it is a Christian book. I think this would be a good introduction book to sex slavery in the US to give to people.
