The Enemy Between My Legs
Stephanie L. Jones
Stephanie L. Jones, LLC., November 2007
$12.99 US, ISBN 097945560X
Rating: 4
Innocence lost…
The sexual assault of a child, once a taboo subject for public appeal, is no longer taboo. In fact, not only is it now commonplace to see and/or hear daily news reports of heinous crimes done to innocent victims, but mainstream media seems to have taken sexual assault cases and turned them into a popular, however disturbing, headline of our day.
Stephanie L. Jones knows firsthand what it is like to be a victim of child sexual assault. The Enemy Between My Legs is Jones’ recount of the horrific atrocities forced upon her for a number of years by members of her own family. In a brief, but succinct manner, Jones manages to effectively tell her story without bogging the reader down with a lot of trivial information. Instead, she tells just enough information about what happened to her to evoke sympathy, as well as make readers stop and wonder if they may have missed the signs of abuse in the lives of someone they know. The briefness of her recap in no way diminishes the terrible happenings of her life.
I am sure this was a hard story to tell, but I applaud Ms. Jones for pushing through the painful memories and doing her part to educate readers about this appalling aspect of her life.
~~Renee Williams, All the Buzz