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"How did we fail? What could we have done to prevent this?" A line from a recent book I read and something I can't get out of my head, in particular, since the news of the death of Layla Jeffrey in Donald. We're failing these women and girls. All of us.

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Layla Jeffery, 13, was ‘somewhat shy’ and ‘well-liked’. A Victorian town is struggling with her alleged murder

Donald – a small community about 280km from Melbourne – is grieving after a missing teenager was found dead

Today's #Review is of Against Their Will by Karina Kilmore

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Confronting subject matter, mitigated by some really strong female characterisations in a plot that absolutely gallops along

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Against Their Will, Karina Kilmore

AGAINST THEIR WILL opens with a bang, and keeps up the pace, tension and jeopardy right to the very last page. Centred around Danny Boyd, a journalist who had been recruited to work for "The Open", a ...

Update on the #justread / #amreading queues:

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Just Finished Reading

Managed to get some reading done again over another cold, and thank goodness! wet weekend. Finished off: Stay Buried by Jane R. Miles Against Their Will by Karina Kilmore Happy Woman by Abby Corso...

Thursday Temptations is back:

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Thursday Temptations

This temptations is upcoming releases, or books that are out now.

Let me get this right - Albo (for all his myriad of other faults), made an ick of himself misspeaking on a podcast.

One of the vocal critics of that is Barnaby Joyce who was sleeping with a younger staffer whilst still married.

Hypocrisy means something different in RWNJ circles.

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