Made me eyes water, turned my stomach, forced a sigh. Listening to this audiobook was a physical experience throughout the body.

Marie Ressa can write-write, and she gets personal and political and weaves those two components so well together. She still feels like she's talking to people who are listening, not to crowds who are blinding adoring. I'm glad she's alive to tell her story, despite the many sacrifices she's needed to make, the intimidation she continues to face, and the absurdity and frustration walking the line she walks entails.

My one constructive criticism would be the hard line she draws between herself and the enemies of press freedom (in this case, it was frequently the PH government). "Don't fight monsters by becoming one," she says, and perhaps in her fight for truth and justice, she's needed to draw that hard line. But she ends the book be encouraging readers to take a step back when they start hating each other. To fight together, not each other, but I'm not entirely sure if it's always so clear.

Pilipinas. :'(
Pilipinas, I'm so sad and sorry for us.