{"id":43383,"date":"2025-08-09T20:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=43383"},"modified":"2025-08-09T20:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:56:06","slug":"review-of-for-girls-who-walk-through-fire-by-kim-derose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=43383","title":{"rendered":"Review of For Girls Who Walk Through Fire, by Kim DeRose"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For Girls Who Walk Through Fire<\/em><\/p>\n

by Kim DeRose<\/p>\n

Union Square & Co., 2023. 307 pages.
\nReview written May 17, 2023, from an advance reader copy.<\/p>\n

For Girls Who Walk Through Fire<\/em> features Elliott, a teenage girl who\u2019s attending a sexual assault survivors’ support group, but who hasn\u2019t managed to talk about her own experience yet. And it all seems so pointless. What good does talking about it do?<\/p>\n

When a member of their group who has anonymously taken her rapist to trial has the guy let off with a slap on the wrist, it just all seems too much for Elliott. At the same time, she finds a book in her dead mother\u2019s things. The book promises to offer the spell she needs if Elliott can bring together a coven.<\/p>\n

And so Elliott brings some girls together from the support group, and they begin casting spells for vengeance, because how else will justice be done? But there are some alarming results and the girls need to come to terms with what actually constitutes justice, and is the blowback worth it?<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t say how it ends except that the book does rise above a simple quest for justice. Some of the magic was a little murky in how it works, but this was an enjoyable read about a heavy but way too common topic.<\/p>\n

If girls who have experienced this read this book, even though they may be sorry they don\u2019t have a magic spellbook, I think they\u2019ll be uplifted by the story of the power of having friends by your side.<\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

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