Although the novel has considerable fun with familiar horror tropes the various Fear Tests tested my patience and I cared little for these spoilt posh rich kids, with even Rachel letting her old best friend down. It’s time for the ultimate prank to play out … An atmospheric page-turner about loving scary movies, longing to belong, and uncovering the many masks people wear. At the home of Morteja, Nadia internally condemns his mother for her part (and the role of other women) in supporting ISIS.

I had high expectations for this book after reading Goldy Moldavsky’s ‘Kill the Boy Band’ and it did not disappoint. Neighboring villages began to shelter extremists who denounced Christians and non-Sunni Muslims and, even worse, who considered Yazidis to be kuffar, unbelievers worthy of killing. Islamic State militants massacred the people of her village, executing men who refused to convert to Islam and women too old to become sex slaves. When new girl Rachel Chavez joins an elite high school in NYC, she’s hoping to put a past tragedy behind her. Nadia explains that a Yazidi woman would not stand for any other woman to be treated as she and the other captives have been.The cover is gorgeous and the book contains a lot of interesting information about superstitions and folklore and terrific descriptions of the geography of the area but the story was a little much for me. I loved the premise of this book, the idea of a group of horror movie fanatics getting together to design these spine-tingling fear tests.

Murad gives us a window on the atrocities that destroyed her family and nearly wiped out her vulnerable community. Issues of femininity, female power and independence, the idea of labelling women to keep them down, gender conflict and roles and sexual violence.After all, it was those men, not the peshmerga, who built a dirt barrier with their own hands around the village after the 2007 attacks, and it was Kocho’s men who patrolled that barrier day and night for a full year, stopping cars at makeshift checkpoints and watching for strangers, until we felt safe enough to go back to a normal life. Meanwhile, there's me, the literary garbage disposal, who consumes anything, no matter how trashy, as long as it's ente

Nadia Murad is a courageous young Yazidi woman who has endured unimaginable tragedy and degradation through sexual enslavement to ISIS.With her new book, The Last Girl , Nadia Murad has assumed the stature of an Elie Wiesel for her people.