The '' Evening Standard '' Arifa Akbar wrote that the book " initially defers its shock " , being " a history lesson " about the genocide and about her family 's life , and that the latter two parts of the book " deliver true horror , and a surreal sense of Murad 's parallel existence as a sex slave in a city filled with ordinary Sunni Muslim families " . Malek wrote : " She takes the time to introduce Kocho and its people before the arrival of the Islamic State . ... So when the Islamic State strikes , we know that these are real people — and we know that the stakes are high and the devastation is visceral . " Bhardwaj wrote that Murad 's statement , that everyone is more interested in the sexual abuse aspect of the genocide , was " perhaps her most damning comment " and that " her account reflects the collective guilt of civilisation "
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