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Rites of Passage
by Joy N. Hensley
Short and Sweet:
DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT
To Elaborate...
So this book gave me feels. Feels I have never felt before (at least to this extent). I have never read something that has made me so ANGRY. Sick-to-my-stomach, want-to-throw-my-phone-across-the room-ANGRY. (I was reading on my Kindle app.) Sidenote: NOT angry at the book, because the book is BEAUTIFUL. What made me so FREAKING ANGRY is how accurate this book is. It realistically and incredibly shows the injustice that occurs when someone dares (literally) to do something out of the ordinary that others think they are incapable of, undeserving of trying, etc, particularly when that someone is a woman. The boys, who are constantly attacking her and trying to get her to quit, may be fictional, but knowing that there are people out there exactly like them made me want to punch something. I am so, so, so glad that this author wrote this book and has created a story full of so much strength, bravery, and fierceness that it made me want to cry, scream, and yell right along with Mac (aka Samantha McKenna who totally shares my first name and that's cool). The story covers something that NEEDS to be discussed and desperately needs to change.
*deep breath*
So okay, other parts of the book super rocked as well, but did not set my feminism on fire. The family and friendship relationships are so well done. They are complex and changing and real. There was one character I was begging not to be a bad person, so I literally whooped out loud when the character stayed true. This was a very vocal book for me. It also taught me a lot about the military which is pretty cool, because I really don't know much about it.
The final knife to my feels came in the ending. If it wasn't so appropriate and so damn understandable, it wouldn't have hurt so much. I DESPERATELY wanted a certain part to be different, but it was not to be. I GET it, but it still hurts. I might have even been upset if I had gotten what I wanted because it wouldn't have been as realistic, but damn the feels. My feels will be recovering from this one for a long time.
Originally posted at I Heart YA Fiction: http://iheartyafiction.blogspot.com/2014/08/review-rites-of-passage.html
DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT
To Elaborate...
So this book gave me feels. Feels I have never felt before (at least to this extent). I have never read something that has made me so ANGRY. Sick-to-my-stomach, want-to-throw-my-phone-across-the room-ANGRY. (I was reading on my Kindle app.) Sidenote: NOT angry at the book, because the book is BEAUTIFUL. What made me so FREAKING ANGRY is how accurate this book is. It realistically and incredibly shows the injustice that occurs when someone dares (literally) to do something out of the ordinary that others think they are incapable of, undeserving of trying, etc, particularly when that someone is a woman. The boys, who are constantly attacking her and trying to get her to quit, may be fictional, but knowing that there are people out there exactly like them made me want to punch something. I am so, so, so glad that this author wrote this book and has created a story full of so much strength, bravery, and fierceness that it made me want to cry, scream, and yell right along with Mac (aka Samantha McKenna who totally shares my first name and that's cool). The story covers something that NEEDS to be discussed and desperately needs to change.
*deep breath*
So okay, other parts of the book super rocked as well, but did not set my feminism on fire. The family and friendship relationships are so well done. They are complex and changing and real. There was one character I was begging not to be a bad person, so I literally whooped out loud when the character stayed true. This was a very vocal book for me. It also taught me a lot about the military which is pretty cool, because I really don't know much about it.
The final knife to my feels came in the ending. If it wasn't so appropriate and so damn understandable, it wouldn't have hurt so much. I DESPERATELY wanted a certain part to be different, but it was not to be. I GET it, but it still hurts. I might have even been upset if I had gotten what I wanted because it wouldn't have been as realistic, but damn the feels. My feels will be recovering from this one for a long time.
Originally posted at I Heart YA Fiction: http://iheartyafiction.blogspot.com/2014/08/review-rites-of-passage.html