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Foul Is Fair
by Hannah Capin
Content warnings: sexual assault (not depicted), rape culture, violence, abusive relationship, suicide attempt, blood
Representation: lesbian and transgender secondary characters
Actual rating: 4.5 stars
This book was like a hard punch that takes time to recover. Before going into it, I thought it would be a simple revenge story. But OH.MY.GOD. It was a bloody, gore-filled and crazy story that left me haunting for days. I have never read Macbeth but I knew the basic and this feminist retelling of Macbeth blew me away. INTENSE is definitely the word to describe this book. It is twisted but leaves you feeling...powerful?! The main theme of the story is sexual assault and rape culture and this book dealt with these in a pretty hard way.
Elle goes to a party with her three best friends on her sixteenth birthday but some famous boys of another school choose her as their next conquest. But she denies calling herself a victim. They swore to destroy them all and stops at nothing! I couldn't stop wondering how supportive Elle's friends were. That group of girls themselves were horrible but their friendship was unchallenging. They believed in Elle and her murderous revenge plan and supported her at every step.
This book is not for everyone, as all won't be able to suspend their beliefs to read about a group of girls set for murderous revenge. Because girls can't be that cruel right? But why not? Look at all that is happening to girls today. Of course, in reality, to imagine such a story would be catastrophic, but again, I can't help myself but feel how privileged men are.
This is a story of girls who are often told to be silent. This is a story of taking things into your own hands when you know that even the justice system will fail you. How many rape accusers get the punishment they deserve? And how many cases don't backfire and blame the women instead? How many of those women are still alive, not eaten up by fear and trauma? Foul is Fair deliver revenge by not letting go men of that crime unpunished.
This book is pretty dark but the writing reads like a classic and will leave you mesmerised. And if you decide to read it (which I hope you would), check out the CW first and read this when you are in the right mind.
Representation: lesbian and transgender secondary characters
Actual rating: 4.5 stars
This book was like a hard punch that takes time to recover. Before going into it, I thought it would be a simple revenge story. But OH.MY.GOD. It was a bloody, gore-filled and crazy story that left me haunting for days. I have never read Macbeth but I knew the basic and this feminist retelling of Macbeth blew me away. INTENSE is definitely the word to describe this book. It is twisted but leaves you feeling...powerful?! The main theme of the story is sexual assault and rape culture and this book dealt with these in a pretty hard way.
Elle goes to a party with her three best friends on her sixteenth birthday but some famous boys of another school choose her as their next conquest. But she denies calling herself a victim. They swore to destroy them all and stops at nothing! I couldn't stop wondering how supportive Elle's friends were. That group of girls themselves were horrible but their friendship was unchallenging. They believed in Elle and her murderous revenge plan and supported her at every step.
This book is not for everyone, as all won't be able to suspend their beliefs to read about a group of girls set for murderous revenge. Because girls can't be that cruel right? But why not? Look at all that is happening to girls today. Of course, in reality, to imagine such a story would be catastrophic, but again, I can't help myself but feel how privileged men are.
This is a story of girls who are often told to be silent. This is a story of taking things into your own hands when you know that even the justice system will fail you. How many rape accusers get the punishment they deserve? And how many cases don't backfire and blame the women instead? How many of those women are still alive, not eaten up by fear and trauma? Foul is Fair deliver revenge by not letting go men of that crime unpunished.
This book is pretty dark but the writing reads like a classic and will leave you mesmerised. And if you decide to read it (which I hope you would), check out the CW first and read this when you are in the right mind.