A review by beckimoody29
All Girls by Emily Layden

4.0

#metoo in the context of a private boarding school. As students head back to class, they are greeted with yard signs suggesting that a student had been raped years before and the administration covered it up. As the students search for the truth, they also are forced to confront their own ideas about consent. I really liked this book but it was very confusing at first. It is important to know that this is really a series of "vignettes" featuring various students. It is not a straight narrative and characters wander in and out of the story. I was not expecting that and so I had a lot of trouble following the timeline at first.
This book is also less a story and more discussion starter. There are answers (at least implied) and lessons learned, but there is a lot going on. There were girls I really wanted to follow longer, and some stories were a little boring. However, I thought there was a balanced approach with lots of different situations.