We actually get to witness the event through Bethie’s eyes which was horrific enough but afterwards where she is the one who gets help, helps the police identify five of the men responsible although there could have been more but she couldn’t be sure about them only to be confronted with her age, at 12 still considered a child her word was questioned when Bethie knows she would never be able to forget those faces just as she could never live in the before now they were in the after. We then learn more about Bethie who was at a party with her mother and shortly before midnight they decided to head home despite the offer of staying with a friend for the night. Appreciating his candour they became friends but they wouldn’t see each other for two years until the night she was raped. We learn that John Dromoor, former soldier now police officer was Teena’s friend after they met in a bar and when she offered for him to call he replied with he’d like to but his wife was having their first baby in a few weeks. We are introduced to our protagonist, Teena Maguire, and her daughter Bethie who are attacked in the early minutes of July 5 th, 1996 where Teena was gang-raped, beaten and left for dead and yet there are still people saying that she was asking for it and that it was her own fault being dressed he way she was with her 12 year old daughter after midnight, just taking a short cut home through the park. Review: As the title suggest, this book is all about rape, specifically gang rape, so if this is triggering to you please do not read this review as I will be going into detail.

Black Fall by D.J. Bodden