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Exit, Pursued by a Bear
by E.K. Johnston
cheerleading camp is supposed to be an amazing beginning to hermione winters' final year of high school, but while at camp she is drugged and raped, unable to remember her attack but a victim all the same. now she must heal and decide how much, exactly, her attacker is allowed to take from her.
i loved this book and i want every teenager to read it. maybe every adult too. it made me laugh and cry. i love hermione and her heartbreaking strength. i love polly and everyone should have a friend like her. i love dr. hutt because in teen books so many times the therapists/psychiatrists are seen as useless and unhelpful or patronizing and not to be trusted, and that just isn't always the case in real life. i also love that the cheerleading is co-ed and portrayed as a regular team sport. to be honest, i can't think of a whole lot i didn't love.
after reading some of the other reviews, i feel the need to add: people react to trauma in different ways, and this is just one portrayal of that. i felt it was very fitting of hermione's character to respond the way she did. as dr. hutt points out, there is no right or wrong way to heal, or behave after an assault.
i loved this book and i want every teenager to read it. maybe every adult too. it made me laugh and cry. i love hermione and her heartbreaking strength. i love polly and everyone should have a friend like her. i love dr. hutt because in teen books so many times the therapists/psychiatrists are seen as useless and unhelpful or patronizing and not to be trusted, and that just isn't always the case in real life. i also love that the cheerleading is co-ed and portrayed as a regular team sport. to be honest, i can't think of a whole lot i didn't love.
after reading some of the other reviews, i feel the need to add: people react to trauma in different ways, and this is just one portrayal of that. i felt it was very fitting of hermione's character to respond the way she did. as dr. hutt points out, there is no right or wrong way to heal, or behave after an assault.