Trafficked: The Diary of a Sex Slave Paperback – December 30, 2011

This book will destroy your soul, especially if you have a child. Great read, but some parts had me bawling.

It was a good read, don’t get me wrong. I feel like it would have benefited from having a little more length and possibly more detail in certain areas (how she felt, her entire thought process, recovery, etc). This is the first title I’ve read by this author and I was actually impressed so I’m sure I’ll be taking up more titles from her in the future.

Roughly written. Very short. Lacking details and information. Not really in "diary" form......won't look for more of this author's books. Not worth the read.

I started this book planning to read a few pages before I went to bed then finish it up the next day because it was a fairly short read. That was a horrible idea because I could not put it down. =)The story is written in a diary format and is Fiction but it could so easily have been a true story and one that really needs to be told more often. It made me sick to my stomach at parts and wanted to cry at others but I really enjoyed the story and really feel that it makes a good point and more needs to be done to help these women.The only complaint I had about the book is that I really wish it was longer because I sort of felt like the ending was a tiny bit rushed but the overall book was excellent.

Amazing and sad story ... loved the fact it is real and raw . Easy read and quick to finish story

It is horrifying to think about but each day, there are women and minors being transported, traded, coerced, sold etc for the sole purpose of sex trafficking. Most folks think this can't possibly be happening in civilized, highly developed countries like the U.S., Canada etc but they would be wrong! Sex trafficking can occur right under our noses and depending on the skill/experience of the trafficker, the circumstances, the fear instilled in the victim(s), we might not even realize it. Sad but true! It is everyone's responsibility to stay observant both for our own safety but also that of others. If you suspect something, see something, SAY something! If you are wrong, think of it as a GOOD thing--no one is being harmed in THAT situation. If you are right? You've likely saved a life and a lot more heartache! Easy to follow story, interesting and really makes one think!

I feel there are so many things that go unnoticed in this world and sex trafficking being one of them. It is a sad reality that many women, children and men have to experience this. My heart breaks for those who have to endure this. This book paints a fictional story of a woman who was obviously sex trafficked but faught to stay alive for her little girl. I read this book fast and did not take long for me to read the whole book. Great book! I didn't even know it was a fictional book until I got to the end of it. It sounded so realistic. It is still a great book.-Jessica

So this is a book that has 98 pages and it is FICTIONAL. So I will at first not discuss the subject of the story but about the book itself. I am sorry for a very long review to comeThis is a complete rip-offI moved away from home in 2006 and I was obsessed with reading biographies and true-story books. There were one book, unfortunately I have forgotten the title and author, but it was a true story about a girl who trusted her friend to get her a job and instead she got sold as a sex slave. Recognize that? yeah that is the main plot in this so called book. Some event is changed a bit and some small parts is added to it and places are changed. Otherwise this is a very short resume of that book and that pissed me off. I do not like when authors takes a great book and in this case a very sad story and make it their own to make money! Sure 20% of the royalties is donated to two organisations who help sex slaves but it is still not right.2. Language and grammar mistakesWhen the book is as short as 98 pages you can think it would be easy to proofread it and make sure there is no grammar mistakes and no spelling mistakes. Obviously this book didnt do that. There is very awkward grammar used. For it to be fictional it is bad and for it to be “a diary” it is still bad.There is numerous times the the author mixes “she” and “he” so it is really confusing and hard to understand who they mean or are thinking about. Also there is plenty of places where words are missing and cut out. When you see it as a rip off from another book, it is strange how copy and paste dont always work…feeling and subject3. Feeling in the bookSo now we are into the subject and feeling part of the book and we start with the feeling. This book didnt make me feel anything more than annoyance toward the main character that I THINK is called Elena. I think her name is used ONCE in the end of the book. She is stupid and naive and discusses me. She say a few times she always see her daughter and thinks about her, even when she is being rapped and used. This is disgusting and if you read true story books, the girls say they do think about their families BUT when they are being used, they zoom out. They do not think about their children. It is wrong and horrible.Beside me not liking this stupid character the book dont get me to feel anything. Normally realistic books and true feeling books try to get the reader to understand the horror by describing events and feelings but it is none of this in this book. It is mostly an inner monologue about how much she misses her daughter.4. SubjectThe subject of the book is horrible and I do not approve of it and I do want it to be written about, talked about and stopped. If a novel or a fictional book will help with that, then they should be written but I also feel the true feeling comes from reading biographies and true story books. This book do not give anything to the debate and to put the subject into the light, specially when you have read the true story… it is good that some profit is given to organisations that helps victims but I would rather give all the money straight to an organisation over buying this book.So I think you already have figured out that I do not like this book and I wish I never bought it. The reviews off it where good but no, not a book worth buying. there are so many other great books bot fictional and true story books about this subjects that feels more real and make the subject real and something to discuss.

This is a very powerful read, and although the author advises that it is fiction, it feels genuine and authentic.Just reading it had me feeling very anxious and as trapped as the protagonist was. She just seemed to be in such an impossible situation, and knowing that this is happening all over the world is truly horrific.It is a very short book (only 96 pages) so can be read in one sitting; however, this doesn’t stop it packing a punch. We are following primarily just one girl, Elena, who was looking for a better life but ended up being exploited and living through the cruellest type of hell.She does get to speak to some of the other sex workers who tell her their stories and experiences as well, but it doesn’t really look at the big picture. It is called ‘A Diary of a Sex Slave’ so you would expect it to be focused on just one girl, and it is.I thought this was very well written; it had the right balance of wanting to be hard-hitting but not off-putting to read. You really felt for the characters, and I was totally invested in Elena’s outcome.A real hard-hitting and gritty read!

This book (fiction, based on real told stories from victims) tells about the incredible suffering that trafficked people endure. The worst realisation is that it happens right under our nose. The author makes20% of the income generated available to organisations who fight human trafficking. It is a must read to wake up to this horrible phenomenon, no matter how hard it is to be faced with reality reading this.

This book was great. It's written in diary form so you feel very close to Elena through each situation she is forced to go through. Although it is fictional it is very eye opening and educational. It shows you that trafficking is not just a situation that third world country's are dealing with but it is a world wide situation that everyone needs to be aware of. This is a good read for someone who wants a good insight on the reality of people who are trafficked, but doesn't want to be traumatized by a real life story. I loved this book.

No es como yo creí, es una novela corta y es una ficción. Es como se puede leer en los periodicos.

...ma necessario, per dare una bella sveglia alle troppe anime belle che preferiscono ignorare il problema o che – peggio ancora – quando vedono le tante “ragazze di strada” che “passeggiano” lungo i nostri viali, sulle consolari o in prossimità delle tangenziali, non sanno fare altro che storcere il naso o chiamare le guardie per allontanare questo “spettacolo indecente” da sotto i loro occhi.Eppure è cronaca di tutti i giorni la scoperta di questo o quel racket, dello sfruttamento di giovani schiave che da tutto il resto del mondo vengono convogliate a forza nel “civile” mondo occidentale e capitalista.Il libro è, purtroppo, solo un'opera di fiction ma – come ebbi modo di scrivere ai miei amici e conoscenti su facebook quando l'ho acquistato – per me era comunque l'ennesima pietra da inserire nel grande muro delle brutture che – specialmente a partire dal ventesimo secolo ad oggi – hanno plasmato il mondo in cui viviamo; un mondo imbelle e rimbambito di pace e prosperità, una pace ed una prosperità pagate a carissimo prezzo in altre parti del mondo che – di fatto – anche se sono passati quasi 100 anni dagli exploit delle grandi potenze colonizzatrici europee (e non solo), continua a predare, nell'incoscienza e nell'indifferenza generale, su quelle nazioni e quei popoli meno fortunati (o rapaci) dei nostri.Un muro di esperienze vissute e di storia che sto costruendo da anni, da quando cioè ho capito che non c'è nulla di più inutile che parlare a vanvera di “ricordo” e “memoria”.A che servono le giornate della memoria a imperituro ricordo di questo o quell'evento, quando, di fatto, non si conosce nulla (o quasi) di quanto è veramente accaduto (o accade tuttora, come in questo caso) e le informazioni pertinenti tendono a scomparire nel dimenticatoio?Poi ci lamentiamo che le stesse atrocità si ripetono e si moltiplicano periodicamente, che la storia non insegna mai niente...Quel che colpisce di più il lettore italiano è che la storia narrata in questo libro ci tocca e ci riguarda molto da vicino, perché la protagonista è moldava (tra tutte le etnie presenti nel mercato clandestino della prostituzione forzata, forse la più numerosa in assoluto, specie alle nostre latitudini) e il primo “teatro” della vicenda è proprio il nostro Paese.Peggio ancora – anche se per me personalmente è tutt'altro che shoccante, viste le notizie che di quando in quando affiorano sui giornali e sul web – è scoprire come in buona parte questo scempio sia possibile grazie alla connivenza (spesso con connotati di vera e propria criminale complicità) delle forze dell'ordine che troppo spesso vedono, sanno e tacciono, con la scusa che “se non c'è denuncia, non è possibile perseguire il reato”, come se fosse una cosa semplice o normale per una persona in stato di sudditanza fisica e psicologica (basta pensare all'ossessione che la protagonista ha riguardo la figlioletta rimasta in Moldavia alla – presunta – mercé dei suoi aguzzini) denunciare liberamente agli agenti i propri aguzzini quando perquisizioni e retate avvengono regolarmente alla presenza degli sfruttatori.Dicevo che purtroppo è un'opera di fiction perché nella realtà ciò che accade alla giovanissima protagonista di questo “diario” è un evento assai raro, tant'è che quando si viene a sapere che una schiava è stata salvata per amore o per compassione dall'intervento di un cliente, la cosa fa ancora notizia e sensazione.Dio solo sa se non preferirei che questa fosse la norma anziché l'eccezione.