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Title: With the wild images of ritual gang-rape & subsequent death
Review: ...ringing in my imagination, I left Voigt's novel after the second chapter. It's not as though I feel I'm prudish about topics dealing with issues young adults face. I loved Laurie Halse-Anderson's, Speak. Elske, however, disturbed me because I felt as though I were reading an illicit child-pornography tract. Instead of a thought-provoking examination of the exploitation girls may encounter, society's response to it and the ultimate successful resolution of that girl finding her voice and becoming healthy and whole, Voigt treated us to Elske's grandmother getting gang-raped to death in her stead so that she may run away... to what? Having left that horrendous experience in the first pages, life didn't seem worth much point.
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