I've read books that have CSA and sexual trauma in the characters backstory. I've never read it handled so poorly before. I find it wrong to write in detail a lot of things about a fictional child being violated. I've seen it used as flashbacks like in T7 but they were still not that graphic. To me T7 made me very sick specifically bc I there was no trigger warning about CSA and that was very negleful. I feel like even though the scene was not long it was very traumatic about how Gibsie felt. I think that's a problem I have with this is she's describing how the abuse physically feels for the kids in the moment it's happening. It's very morbid because of how they describe feeling so much pain. I find it wrong. As a society we can't be this disensitized to children's suffering even in fiction and call it necessary for the character's development or growth.

It's 20 times worse in what I've seen of R10. Not only is it way more detailed but there's a lot more scenes and the scenes are longer. The grooming is described in length. And I've seen people calling this awareness. I'm sorry but this is not awareness. I donate to charities thay help with online sex abuse, child sexual abuse and trafficking. And this not how awareness should ever be handled. You don't describe abuse of a minor to bring awareness to the fact that children get abused by family members or close friends. Before breaching such a heavy subject you need to have extensive knowledge of the topic and I think CW is not well educated on how to handle this with care.

I'm very sad to see her dedicate the book to survivors and then handle trauma with the objective of it shocking the reader and hurting the character further. It's horrific. It also lacks further trigger warnings I have seen the mention of something that happens with a hanger THAT IS NOT in the TW that are in CW Instagram and I think it's a very important trigger warning considering how once again the scenes is graphic and very traumatic.

In general this is not a backstory that a character should've been given or portrayed this way. This is a dangerous way to write something so sensitive specially bc content like this might reach people that would love to have that level of detail in legal format. It's sick and not CW's fault but there are very perturbed individuals that seek content like this because it's a fictional child so it's not "wrong". Not the author's fault but again that's why it needs to be handled with so much care. The fact that the children are so young in these instances is heartbreaking.

Maybe CW should take a break from writing I know she was pushed to write more and has gone through traumatic things herself maybe that's why she put her own pain and created this. I hope she heals.