This book does deal with a sensitive and important topic but in the end I was just really glad that it ended up being under 200 pages long. The main character is completely isolated and her grades drop significantly. She doesn't tell her friends, her family, or the cops what really happened so when everyone returns to school they hate her. This started off as a great idea for a novel I would read. (I am a sucker for emotional tragedies and Law & Order: SVU episodes.)

The character's voice was dry, dull and boring though throughout the whole thing. Because she had no friends and really no relationships, there isn't a lot of love or way to relate to the side characters. Also, what kind of high school changes their school mascot five times within a single year????

It felt like I was reading one of those "important novels that everyone must read in high school and that 80% of the class ends up hating and looking up the cliffnotes summary for the essay."

Only this time I actually didn't like it.