Loved this book. I know others who have read it that don't like the vague end. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I learned a lot about the era and culture and now want to learn more. I read this as a kid and decided to re-read for nostalgia's sake. The book talks about Margaux’s experience throughout her life including the impact that the trauma has had on her. I had to take many breaks from it, reading it just to one day be done with it, and there was no joy in finishing it. years. At first, I really liked it, then it just got weird. Series Group. Although entertaining toward the end, I know a bit of Roman history, so the first parts of the book were confusing when referring to Caesar. Personally, it pretty much broke my heart on multiple levels. I have read that people feel she is honoring her abuser and uplifting him in this book, and I somewhat agree with that. One girl said that it’s like the earth is scorched and the grass won’t grow back. Ancient Rome in YA & Middle Grade Fiction, 36 of the Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021. If you want to see a victim stand up and take back control, again I would advise you to look someplace else. This novel has 19 chapters and 800 thousand words. I am one of those people who has problems with the current trend in memoirs to be told in pages of elegant dialogue and lengthy descriptions of settings that cannot possibly be remembered. As compelling as this. This is a memoir by a woman who was sexually molested and raped by an older man who was a "friend of the family". But this book has a unique perspective. There are ways to get the point across without doing what she did. Margaux chronicles the true story of her secret 14-year relationship with a paedophile old enough to be her grandfather using the most poetic, poignant and honest prose I have ever read, and giving the reader a harrowing and yet human insight into the mind of both a paedophile and his innocent victim. Start by marking “Tiger, Tiger” as Want to Read: Error rating book. I thought this was a decent YA book set in Ancient Rome. All of that. I rated this five stars because I think it's an important book and because I liked the way Fragoso was able to evoke the mood of her life in the way that she did. The trick, as always, is a good story well-told, and content that would be of interest to any reader at any stage in their life. Ultimately I think what bothered people was that she talked about the fact that she loved him and never refuted that and that's uncomfortable to hear. While there is description of the gladiators and animals slaughtering each other, there is also innocent, forbidden love between the princess and a slave. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Interesting though the choice of names in her characters. This extraordinary memoir is an unprecedented glimpse into the psyche of a young girl in free fall and conveys to readers -- including parents and survivors of abuse -- just how completely a pedophile enchants his victim and binds her to him. I'm a terrible book reviewer: not only is this copy atrociously late, but I'd also got the impression that the story in Tiger, Tiger, a memoir by Margaux Fragoso, somehow pertained to tigers. What if he were super nice and had lots of pets and was a really good listener? At first I thought it was a little odd to have a British accent telling the story of Ancient Rome, but I soon got used to it. I must have been way off base on that, since this book (for grades 5-7, so even younger than YA), had a number of words I didn't know. The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage and resignation, both. ", What an unexpected surprise. We get to know Aurelia (the daughter) and her cousin/playmate Marcus. I realize, that child sex abuse is gross, and that its not a pretty subject, I just think it could have been done a little less offensively. I wanted to read how she moved on from that experience, and eventually had a daughter of her own. For the next 14 years, until he committed suicide at the age of 66, they were together on an almost daily basis, and for most of that time, he was sexually molesting her. I had thought that a book's reading level was determined if not solely by, at least weighed very heavily by level of vocabulary. Welcome back. This is a hard book to review, as it was very difficult to read. There are people out there like that...and though it's true, they need help themselves that simply isn't widely provided, it's usually punished after an act has occurred. I do not pretend to understand it, but whatever. I must have been way off base on that, since this book (for grades 5-7, so even younger than YA), had a number of words I didn't know. as if you had been. I rated this five stars because I think it's an important book and because I liked the way Fragoso was able to evoke the mood of her life in the way that she did. Based in Haymarket since 1998 we're one of the most experienced late night venues excelling in food, drink, party and play. Yu died from disease in the end and Li Mu Bai was alone and regretted his love to Yu forever. One is given to the emperor's daughter to be raised as her pampered pet. As compelling as this story was it was a struggle and was not a book I wanted to read at length, it was a consistently confronting excruciating read, but I owed it to Margaux to finish this. The other brother is taught to be a vicious man-eating fighter at the Colosseum. The White Tiger Summary The entire novel is narrated through letters by Balram Halwai to the Premier of China, who will soon be visiting India. But somewhere in the middle of this memoir I started to get disgusted, because I could no longer swallow the "stockholm syndrome" excuse I was being sold. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Book Spoilers If You're Excited About Netflix's White Tiger Movie, You Need to Read the Book, Too.