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The Female of the Species
by Mindy McGinnis
This is the story of three high school seniors the year after a girl is raped and murdered:
Alex: the previously-invisible younger sister of dead girl who violently avengers her sister and gets away with it.
P.K. (aka Clare): the preacher's kid who befriends Alex, draws her out of her shell, and drinks too much.
Jack: the cool kid jock who's going places, who tries to be a good guy, but can't help it that he's a meathead.
Based on the summary, I got the impression this book was supposed to be about dealing with rape culture, especially in high school, and doing better. Instead, it felt like the author was capitalizing on rape culture to make a profit. Vigilante justice was depicted as the only way to deal with rapists, and everyone was just kind of okay with it? Also, the high schoolers had an unrealistic mix of maturity levels: they were immature enough to drink to incapacitation in unsafe settings regularly, but they were mature enough to accept and welcome kids who in any other high school would be considered weirdos and losers. It just didn't make sense.
Alex: the previously-invisible younger sister of dead girl who violently avengers her sister and gets away with it.
P.K. (aka Clare): the preacher's kid who befriends Alex, draws her out of her shell, and drinks too much.
Jack: the cool kid jock who's going places, who tries to be a good guy, but can't help it that he's a meathead.
Based on the summary, I got the impression this book was supposed to be about dealing with rape culture, especially in high school, and doing better. Instead, it felt like the author was capitalizing on rape culture to make a profit. Vigilante justice was depicted as the only way to deal with rapists, and everyone was just kind of okay with it? Also, the high schoolers had an unrealistic mix of maturity levels: they were immature enough to drink to incapacitation in unsafe settings regularly, but they were mature enough to accept and welcome kids who in any other high school would be considered weirdos and losers. It just didn't make sense.