Ashley Barks’s Reviews > The Wolf Den > Status Update

So now they’ve moved onto singing. And since slavers are property, and businessmen are ruthless, damage has been done to another woman to get at the nearby competition. Sad.

I like the story so far. The depictions of what men can be like are accurate. It’s true that the more civilized society became, the better off people lived. We gained more rights and freedoms. Men with power have always had freedoms. In this book, there are men slaves, too. Humans were, and still are, barbarous towards one another. We should never forget how recent it was that certain people had no rights at all.

Women went through so much hardship at this time. Obviously I mean these fictional characters and the real ones that lived during this time. This was a time when women were essentially property. Women were not always slaves, but in many societies, it was common. Sometimes they could be well loved. But with wars rampant their protection (fathers, brothers, husbands) could be killed and their freedoms stripped. Harsh