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Title: "The Girl with the Thunder Voice"

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Score (1 to 6): 6

Aduni's story is the story of thousands of girls who were married off in childhood, sold by their families for a handful of food or pennies, of those girls without voices, of slaves without iron shackles. A terrible Nigeria. Abby Dare's "The Girl with the Thundering Voice" shocked me, brought out emotions that could pour out of me like a storm on a dark night. This book is history. Adunni's story - about life, about the clashes, about the brutal things that happen while we worry about another petty problem at work. One thing impressed me more than anything - this girl's willingness to learn and have a voice for respect. I have to admit to you that some scenes in this book are more than horrifying, but they are so deeply touching, teachable and screaming. Man is on this planet not to exist voiceless. Childhood is to be fully lived. Dreams are to be fulfilled. Aduni is a ball of energy worthy of respect. A girl who fights to achieve her goal - to change the destined future, to help those who don't have her strength to fight. So much light, no way to be shorn of the darkness.

The very idea of the book, that knowledge gives people a voice, is what makes a huge impression in the book. The right choice of words is the thing that can open new doors, to a better future, and knowledge can get you to the top, easier than one can imagine. The book is extremely intense. As I read it, I learned not only about this strong girl's life, the hardships, but a whole world I never even knew existed. About a Nigeria I knew about, but not fully, about how the poorest and the richest live. How for some it can and for others it can't. How one could read the sign, and a third was told it didn't apply to him anyway because he had no rights anyway. For a world that I keep thinking no longer exists, we humans are reasonable, kind, tolerant and compassionate. Well, maybe it isn't. And if the phrase "We are all different people" now has a good meaning in Europe, there are places where it still means something bad and you have to be rich and white.

It's hard to retell you the whole book because it's more than just an emoji. I know this review is going to be different, halothic, with so many themes, but I won't have the words to describe what Abby Dare told in a few pages. The world needs to change, people need to change. No dream comes without effort, no word should be spoken without thought or knowing its meaning. If you don't like the story of your life - REWRITE IT. No one is more powerful than ourselves, no matter what the world tells you.