Book Review: Breaking Free

This is an incredible and mind-transforming view into the world of human trafficking of young girls, both in the U.S. and internationally.  These stories will give you chills and make you wonder just how much is out there that we have no idea about...

Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Slavery

Abby Sher

Human trafficking is rampant, not only in third world countries, but thriving ones--even the United States of America.  Around the world, young girls are being sold into slavery, generally sex-related, but that is not the extent of it.

Breaking Free follows three girls around the world that have been through some of the worst situations of human trafficking, but have been able, after years and years, to escape their bondage and go on to do great things and show what they are capable of.

This book is VERY difficult to read.  People don't like to acknowledge that human trafficking and sex slavery can happen...especially not in our own backyard.  The fact that one of these girls lives in California, and another girl an immigrant from Mexico is horrifying.  Sher paints a haunting, but true, picture of the nature of the beast--you will learn a lot about the seedy underbelly of seemingly innocent people.

From Cambodia to Mexico to the U.S., your skin will crawl from the horrors these girls endure, and I hope after reading this book, you will be moved to speak out, to stand up for these girls and women to help put an end to human trafficking around the world.