This is why I never read anything classified as YA. I can't stomach them enduring abuse whatsoever so I always avoid everything Young Adult.
Couldn't read so many pages of this book, skipped more than a few pages, couldn't get to the end also cos how many 17 year olds are that horny for an all-male household? How many even feel safe in a strange relative's homes?
17 y/o being rรคped by everyone in the family isn't on the list of things I'd read at all. She was basically passed around and they all knew they were taking turns on her and didn't see a problem with it. Some even bandied together and went at her in a 3some. All her sexual encounters with them were either rรคpรซ or sexual assault, nothing romantic about forced and endured sex. Not one was consented to but the writer made it seem like she learned to enjoy it after being pinned down and a few thrusts. Let's not talk about her ending up with the neurodivergent one who also physically abused her and in his diary, called her everything you shouldn't even call an honest female sex worker on the streets.
Even supposedly "purest of hearts" Uncle Jake ejaculated in that little girl with the writer making her scream "enjoyed" profanities louder than a sailor and a seasoned pornstar combined. A little girl he should've sent to a therapist to unpack her childhood trauma and parental issues and their eventual demise the second she arrived his abode.
My take-home from this book? Never leave a woman with your all-male relatives, how much more leaving your (deeply traumatized) minors/barely-legal kids with your all-male family members. They will be used for sex. They will be ravaged and forcefully ejaculated in with no one to check them for their crimes. That has to be the message the author was trying to pass.
This is a review not a debate. I'm not taking questions.