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All the Rage
by Courtney Summers
A tough read where you're thinking 'I'm glad I'm not in her shoes', but you are.
You get to experience firsthand what it is like to not be heard, not be liked, not be accepted, be bullied, live in a victim blaming and rape culture; because you'd think if it happened to you, you probably did something to deserve it.
Rape me. He put something in my drink. My lipstick on my stomach. My lipstick in his hand and his hand pressing it into my stomach. His hands. My shirt, still undone after the lake? Laid wide open for him. Rape me.
"He was going to rape me," I say.
You plunge into high school life and follow Romy Grey stumble down the hallways. Told in her point of view, Then and Now. Romy tries to remember what happened on that fateful night where her ex-best friend went missing. Romy is used to being ridiculed, but this is next level and she just can't figure it out. She's angry at the world, no one understands, she lashes out after being pushed time and time again. School is a tough place to be.
Thankfully her home life is relatively stable, but it hasn't always been…
Her only solace, is her job, at the diner outside of town, where no one knows her and she can be anonymous. She even allows herself to trust and make a friend.
He reaches over and squeezes my hand, startling me with his sweetness. But just because something starts out sweet doesn't mean it won't push itself so far past anything you could call sweet anymore. And if it all starts like this, how do you see what's coming?
What makes this book unique is that it is Young Adult, but reads very real, very crude. This shouldn't be what any person lives through... Teenage years are some of the most formative years of a person, and when you add lack of consent, adult content, criminal content, things get messy fast. The trauma can carry over for days, months, years to come. Not to mention, one bad apple in the bunch, taking advantage of someone purely for their entertainment is downright harsh. Thank you to [a:Courtney Summers|1487748|Courtney Summers|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1589039294p2/1487748.jpg] for giving us this story and the insight that goes along with this topical subject.
You get to experience firsthand what it is like to not be heard, not be liked, not be accepted, be bullied, live in a victim blaming and rape culture; because you'd think if it happened to you, you probably did something to deserve it.
Rape me. He put something in my drink. My lipstick on my stomach. My lipstick in his hand and his hand pressing it into my stomach. His hands. My shirt, still undone after the lake? Laid wide open for him. Rape me.
"He was going to rape me," I say.
You plunge into high school life and follow Romy Grey stumble down the hallways. Told in her point of view, Then and Now. Romy tries to remember what happened on that fateful night where her ex-best friend went missing. Romy is used to being ridiculed, but this is next level and she just can't figure it out. She's angry at the world, no one understands, she lashes out after being pushed time and time again. School is a tough place to be.
Thankfully her home life is relatively stable, but it hasn't always been…
Her only solace, is her job, at the diner outside of town, where no one knows her and she can be anonymous. She even allows herself to trust and make a friend.
He reaches over and squeezes my hand, startling me with his sweetness. But just because something starts out sweet doesn't mean it won't push itself so far past anything you could call sweet anymore. And if it all starts like this, how do you see what's coming?
What makes this book unique is that it is Young Adult, but reads very real, very crude. This shouldn't be what any person lives through... Teenage years are some of the most formative years of a person, and when you add lack of consent, adult content, criminal content, things get messy fast. The trauma can carry over for days, months, years to come. Not to mention, one bad apple in the bunch, taking advantage of someone purely for their entertainment is downright harsh. Thank you to [a:Courtney Summers|1487748|Courtney Summers|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1589039294p2/1487748.jpg] for giving us this story and the insight that goes along with this topical subject.