BOYS OF TOMMEN TAMING 7 + RELEASING 10 SPOILERS
(I will not be voicing the so called “wrongdoings” in the likely chance it’ll upset some followers. I simply am here to express my opinions of a book to a book writing and reading community)
I…
Oh my god.
I’m actually ill to my stomach after reading Taming 7 by Chloe Walsh. I thought I was getting Claire and Gibsie’s story of happily ever after, and maybe some snippets of Shannon and Johnny—and I guess I did in some ways, but I really just ended up reading the most disgustingly painfully heartbreaking thing EVER. This started happening to Gibsie when he was SEVEN. He told his babysitter, Caiomhe, and she DIDN’T BELIEVE HIM, then she witnessed it happening and proceeded to do NOTHING IN THE MOMENT, and left a him—a 11/12 year old heavily dyslexic boy—a written letter (he could not read it in any way whatsoever) and walked away forever.
And I know what happens to Lizzie. I know the same person who was doing these things to Gibsie started doing it to Lizzie when she was FIVE, forced something so painfully excruciating on her at age 11, something so vile it brings me to tears. And then Lizzie is brainwashed into thinking everything that’s happened to her is a dream and that she’s crazy and needs help.
Lizzie and Gibsie were close—the best of friends when they were so very young. That is until the person inflicting this unspeakable thing upon two innocent baby children pin them against each other in silent hate. Manipulation doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the wrongdoings.