This book made me feel such a full range of emotions, except at all at the exact same time. Rage, heartbreak, pride... it was overwhelming in the best way, especially by the end.

This book was a hard read but a good one, though please be mindful of the triggers (rape, sexual assault, etc.). I loved how this book tackled the subjects, and I loved the characters that were used to tell the story. While the main characters were Rosina, Erin, and Grace, we still had access to the experiences and lives of so many girls due to the novel's unique storytelling, and I loved that this served to unite the girls even more than the plot already did. They were still all individuals with different thoughts and feelings, but they were still united in this cause, this fight.

There were so many fantastic scenes in this book from start to end, yet was still heartbreakingly realistic. The girls didn't magically succeed in getting the boys locked up when they first went to the police, which served to further highlight the sexist structures existent in our society. And even though the book seemed to end on a good note, Lucy's final chapter served to

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point out that while hope is possible, that change is possible, there are still moments happening right now (referencing a case that occurred in our own world) that show that that change is still necessary, that things aren't perfect right now.

It left me feeling angry and wanting to change the world, not content with how things are right now, which is what I think the book was trying to do.

This book feels so so necessary right now, in a world where girls as young as 13 are called 'sluts' and 'whores' just for what they're wearing while shopping, in which victims are still blamed as doing it for attention, where the man's story is still privileged. I honestly just wish everyone would read this (who feels comfortable doing so of course), because this book just rings true on so many levels.

This book also just touches on a lot of other issues (present in the US at least), such as certain aspects of religion, xenophobia, homophobia (lightly), and prejudice against those who are different, and I feel it handled all of that tactfully, and it only added to the main narrative of the novel in my opinion. It served to show the intersection of all these parts of identity, and it only made the unification of these girls across all these lines of identity more uplifting.