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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
Trigger Warning for the Review: discussion of rape and sexual assault.
If you are a girl or woman, no matter your age, there's probably a huge chance there has been a time in your life when a man has made you uncomfortable. Mostly likely you can name multiple times. Whether it was a seemingly innocuous comment made by a friend or a coworker, or it was a vulgar comment thrown at you by a passerby, maybe that man demanded your attention after you ignored his "compliment", or a man followed you without saying anything, or a man grabbed you without your permission... or maybe you're a survivor of something much worse, a sexual assault or rape.
I've had boys men throw vulgar comments at me, I've had a man follow me, I've had someone call me in the middle of a day pretending to be a friend and then imply they're masturbating, I've had coworkers saying something that to them seemed like a joke, but to me suddenly made them less trustworthy. I've had friends who have experienced much worse. In fact, if you are a woman, there's probably been a time when you sat with a couple of your friends and one of you recounts something upsetting that happened, and suddenly you're all recounting the times that you felt fear every woman learns to live with.
Another thing we learn to do is brush these incidents off. At least, the ones that don't seem "so bad". Why? Because they happen so often that it would quite literally be impossible to live if we let every one of them get to us. But all those incidents do get filled in the back of our heads and each one of them makes us trust men a little less.
At this time, I would like to acknowledge a simple fact that some men and boys go through this too. Men experience sexual assault - not as frequently, but they do too. And I'm not doing this to distract from the topic of male aggression toward women. But as a simple act of solidarity.
This book is everything I've described above. It throws everything I've talked about in your face and forces you to confront it. It shows you just how ugly rape culture is and it's quite merciless about it. There's one scene especially which shows how ugly our world can be when a girl is nearly raped and the witnesses have a more visceral reaction to the main character attacks and hurts the rapist and call her crazy while the girl he nearly raped - their classmate - is laying on the ground unconscious. It's an uncensored discussion of teenage life, the drugs, the sex, the alcohol, the language, the sexting.
Our main character, Alex, does not brush incidents of male sexual violence off when they happen. She confronts them, often violently, sometimes by analyzing it and forcing the reader to think about what they would do in the situation. And at another time, she kills the offender.
What I really liked about this book, however, was the relationships between girls and parents with their kids. I loved the scene where the cop gives his speech about drinking and drugs and sexual assault and when the parents talk to the girls and explain why that speech was so important even if it scared them. I loved the solidarity between the girls the best, when they stick up for each other, when they decide to support each other instead of tearing each other down, when they stop each other from doing stupid things.
I'm not sure about how this book ends. It was honestly so unexpected and shocking that I ugly cried for five minutes with the snot and all. Maybe it was meant to happen that way. Maybe there was no other ending for Alex because of things that she'd done. Maybe it was her punishment... or maybe reward for taking justice into her own hands.
This book has definitely made me think and it will definitely haunt me for awhile.
If you wish to read it, there are some serious potential triggers:
Discussion of implied violent rape and murder of a woman, two attempted rapes, discussion of sexual assault, and mention of child molestation. And possibly: slaughter house and mention of abuse of animal.
If you are a girl or woman, no matter your age, there's probably a huge chance there has been a time in your life when a man has made you uncomfortable. Mostly likely you can name multiple times. Whether it was a seemingly innocuous comment made by a friend or a coworker, or it was a vulgar comment thrown at you by a passerby, maybe that man demanded your attention after you ignored his "compliment", or a man followed you without saying anything, or a man grabbed you without your permission... or maybe you're a survivor of something much worse, a sexual assault or rape.
I've had boys men throw vulgar comments at me, I've had a man follow me, I've had someone call me in the middle of a day pretending to be a friend and then imply they're masturbating, I've had coworkers saying something that to them seemed like a joke, but to me suddenly made them less trustworthy. I've had friends who have experienced much worse. In fact, if you are a woman, there's probably been a time when you sat with a couple of your friends and one of you recounts something upsetting that happened, and suddenly you're all recounting the times that you felt fear every woman learns to live with.
Another thing we learn to do is brush these incidents off. At least, the ones that don't seem "so bad". Why? Because they happen so often that it would quite literally be impossible to live if we let every one of them get to us. But all those incidents do get filled in the back of our heads and each one of them makes us trust men a little less.
At this time, I would like to acknowledge a simple fact that some men and boys go through this too. Men experience sexual assault - not as frequently, but they do too. And I'm not doing this to distract from the topic of male aggression toward women. But as a simple act of solidarity.
This book is everything I've described above. It throws everything I've talked about in your face and forces you to confront it. It shows you just how ugly rape culture is and it's quite merciless about it. There's one scene especially which shows how ugly our world can be when a girl is nearly raped and the witnesses have a more visceral reaction to the main character attacks and hurts the rapist and call her crazy while the girl he nearly raped - their classmate - is laying on the ground unconscious. It's an uncensored discussion of teenage life, the drugs, the sex, the alcohol, the language, the sexting.
Our main character, Alex, does not brush incidents of male sexual violence off when they happen. She confronts them, often violently, sometimes by analyzing it and forcing the reader to think about what they would do in the situation. And at another time, she kills the offender.
What I really liked about this book, however, was the relationships between girls and parents with their kids. I loved the scene where the cop gives his speech about drinking and drugs and sexual assault and when the parents talk to the girls and explain why that speech was so important even if it scared them. I loved the solidarity between the girls the best, when they stick up for each other, when they decide to support each other instead of tearing each other down, when they stop each other from doing stupid things.
I'm not sure about how this book ends. It was honestly so unexpected and shocking that I ugly cried for five minutes with the snot and all. Maybe it was meant to happen that way. Maybe there was no other ending for Alex because of things that she'd done. Maybe it was her punishment... or maybe reward for taking justice into her own hands.
This book has definitely made me think and it will definitely haunt me for awhile.
If you wish to read it, there are some serious potential triggers:
Discussion of implied violent rape and murder of a woman, two attempted rapes, discussion of sexual assault, and mention of child molestation. And possibly: slaughter house and mention of abuse of animal.
Every middle American highschool has the same sterotypes. Add in a teenage vigilante, and you get the premise behind "The Female of the Species" in a town where everyone knows everyone and secrets aren't hidden well and everyone is waiting to leave for college.
“The books didn't help me find a word for myself; my father refused to accept the weight of it. And so I made my own. I am vengeance.”
This book is so special. It tackles another difficult topic in an amazing way. The book follows Alex who at first appears to simply be a introvert who has always kept to herself. But you soon learn there is a lot more to Alex than initially thought. This book was so dark and creepy but it tackled the idea of rape and rape culture in a very unique, but important way.
All The Rage is one of the best books that discusses rape culture and this book easily fits in that category. This book made me angry at times and sad at others. Mindy McGinis wrote this so well. I never knew what exactly was going to happen as Alex became part of her high school's social scene. As she gained friends and other life experiences after her sister's rape and death.
This book was told in 3 seperate POVs and it was one of those unique times were it is absolutely necessary for each of them. We needed Alex's innermonologue as she dealt with her sisters death. We needed Jack's story and how that impacted Alex's. And finally Peekay's POV was important to showcase how a friendship can change a person's story.
I do not want to give many details about this book, but I do want to urge you to read this (if you can). It is so well written and is a story that needs to be told.
This book is so special. It tackles another difficult topic in an amazing way. The book follows Alex who at first appears to simply be a introvert who has always kept to herself. But you soon learn there is a lot more to Alex than initially thought. This book was so dark and creepy but it tackled the idea of rape and rape culture in a very unique, but important way.
All The Rage is one of the best books that discusses rape culture and this book easily fits in that category. This book made me angry at times and sad at others. Mindy McGinis wrote this so well. I never knew what exactly was going to happen as Alex became part of her high school's social scene. As she gained friends and other life experiences after her sister's rape and death.
This book was told in 3 seperate POVs and it was one of those unique times were it is absolutely necessary for each of them. We needed Alex's innermonologue as she dealt with her sisters death. We needed Jack's story and how that impacted Alex's. And finally Peekay's POV was important to showcase how a friendship can change a person's story.
I do not want to give many details about this book, but I do want to urge you to read this (if you can). It is so well written and is a story that needs to be told.
This book is phenomenal, amazing, powerful. I loved it, I couldn't stop reading it, and I didn't want to finish, because I knew, one way or another, this romance between two unlikely teenage lovers, and this friendship between two girls who each see the other in a way no one else can, wasn't going to end happily. This is the first book to make me cry in a long time and my favorite novel I've read so far in 2018. It's going to be a tough act to follow.
I loved this!!! I loved seeing the diversity of the characters. I loved how everyone was portrayed and how emotions were 3D. So many different important topics were addressed in this as well, from rape to treating others with respect. I think this was very well done and I think it was written beautifully.
You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Ωραίο ήταν! Καλύτερο από ότι περίμενα, με περισσότερα πράγματα να έχει να πει από όσα πίστευα στην αρχή. Θίγει δύσκολα θέματα αλλά το κάνει σωστά, χωρίς να υπονοεί ή να κρύβεται, για το rape culture, το slut-shaming, το φόβο του μιλήσεις και του στιγματισμού και τις επιπτώσεις όλων αυτών όχι μόνο στα θύματα αλλά στις οικογένειες, τους φίλους σε όλους τριγύρω.
Καλά γραμμένοι χαρακτήρες και παρά το "βαρύ" ίσως θέμα του διαβάζονταν πολύ εύκολα και δεν θα με πείραζε αν ήταν και μεγαλύτερο!
Το τέλος το φοβόμουν λίγο καθώς το πλησίαζα, αλλά εν τέλει νομίζω πως βρήκε τον καταλληλότερο τρόπο για να το κλείσει.
But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.
But then I used my words, strung in phrases that cut deep, and people paid attention; people gasped. People didn’t
know what to think.
My language is shocking.
Ωραίο ήταν! Καλύτερο από ότι περίμενα, με περισσότερα πράγματα να έχει να πει από όσα πίστευα στην αρχή. Θίγει δύσκολα θέματα αλλά το κάνει σωστά, χωρίς να υπονοεί ή να κρύβεται, για το rape culture, το slut-shaming, το φόβο του μιλήσεις και του στιγματισμού και τις επιπτώσεις όλων αυτών όχι μόνο στα θύματα αλλά στις οικογένειες, τους φίλους σε όλους τριγύρω.
Καλά γραμμένοι χαρακτήρες και παρά το "βαρύ" ίσως θέμα του διαβάζονταν πολύ εύκολα και δεν θα με πείραζε αν ήταν και μεγαλύτερο!
Το τέλος το φοβόμουν λίγο καθώς το πλησίαζα, αλλά εν τέλει νομίζω πως βρήκε τον καταλληλότερο τρόπο για να το κλείσει.
But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.
But then I used my words, strung in phrases that cut deep, and people paid attention; people gasped. People didn’t
know what to think.
My language is shocking.
I really loved this book! I love unexpected friendships and relationships. This book was crazy from start to finish. I had it on my shelves for so long and when I finally got around to it, I finished so quickly.
Highly recommend
Highly recommend
I went into this book thinking is was going to be some feminist story that aims to shine a brighter light on sexual assault but no.
This bok is about another way of coping with grief, this book is a vengeance. This book is the manifestation of society's failure to protect women, and society's failure to punish those who have assaulted us. This book is the consequence of the sexualisation of young girls from a very young age.
So yes, it's not your typical teenage novel, it's gruesome, cruel and crude and it's not going to care about your sensitivity as a reader. This book is very hard to read as we somehow find ourselves relating to one of the caracters even if it's just for one second. But even thought it might bring you into some dark place, this book is worth reading, good luck at trying to function again after finishing it thought...
This bok is about another way of coping with grief, this book is a vengeance. This book is the manifestation of society's failure to protect women, and society's failure to punish those who have assaulted us. This book is the consequence of the sexualisation of young girls from a very young age.
So yes, it's not your typical teenage novel, it's gruesome, cruel and crude and it's not going to care about your sensitivity as a reader. This book is very hard to read as we somehow find ourselves relating to one of the caracters even if it's just for one second. But even thought it might bring you into some dark place, this book is worth reading, good luck at trying to function again after finishing it thought...
I’m still currently processing this but it’s 3 stars for me. I read a lot of reviews prior to reading the book and was left a little disappointed. It’s a great story that tackles a lot of important issues revolving around rape culture & misogyny but it could’ve been a little more effective in my opinion. I wish Alex’s chapters were longer to give us a little more insight about her darker side. I also wish we saw the story from Branley’s perspective to give the story a little more depth. It’s a nice read but the reviews definitely hyped it up for me.