This book was SO POWERful. Depressing as heck, but SO IMPORTANT for ALL to read. Not just to shine light on China (and please note, I am talking about the Chinese Communist Party, NOT the country, culture or people, BIG difference) and all of the human rights violations that are happening there, but also showing step by step how the rights of the people are so quickly, quietly and EFFORTLESSLY systematically stripped from them by those in power.

It's TERRIFYING. What this brave man has gone through and is going through, is heartbreaking and scary. I wish him and all who are living in places that aren't free to one day be able to feel freedom and to live it.

I'm not going to go into the nitty gritty of the book, other than to say, if you are anti-slavery, then you should be anti-Chinese Communist Party. The human rights violation they commit are atrocious and shouldn't be funded by us buying things that say "Made in China".

Again, I am NOT anti-China. The culture, the people, the country are all beautiful and have SO MUCH to teach the rest of the world. But the government in charge? Not so much. (I'm also not thrilled with my country's leaders, so I am not throwing stones at others, we need to step it up too. We could and should be doing better.)

This book is incredibly powerful and scary. I had to put it down a lot after only reading a few pages at a time. It is depressing, but necessary to open our eyes to what is going on around us in our home and in the homes of others. Not to be nosy or to be "saviors", but to learn and help if we can without acting like we are doing a favor or we are better than those we assist.

I haven't been able to stop talking about this book to my friends and family and at the store. 100% recommend to everyone. 5, super scary and the author is incredibly brave for writing this, stars.

My thanks to NetGalley and The Experiment for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.