Week 27 Review: The Nowhere Girls

From Goodreads:

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.

Who are the Nowhere Girls?

They're everygirl. But they start with just three:

Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle's restaurant.

Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren't enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android.

When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she's incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy's tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality. 

My Review:
This was such a great read, and with such an important topic! I had such a great time reading about this group of girls as they take a stance against the awful things that happened to drive one girl away. It was such a fantastic read! 

This book deals with rape, sexual assault, victim blaming, racism, and sexism. It was really aggravating at points on behalf of these characters who were dealing with this, when they really shouldn't have. Plus the fact that it seems to go pretty similar to this in real life just makes it hard to stomach.

Taking the fact that this group of girls band together to put a stop to this situation, I loved it. They should've have had to, but nobody in a position of authority did anything, so it was up to them to do what they could to make the situation better.

We got to be in all three girls' perspectives, which I really enjoyed, they were wildly different people, and I enjoyed getting all of their takes. We also got some perspectives from "Us" various other girls in the school, that gave us a more complete picture of what was going on, and I really enjoyed that! 

I had a really good time reading this book, and I can't wait to read more by Amy Reed! 

Author: Amy Reed

Read: July 3rd, 2021
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded good, and it's a Edelweiss Book to Read 2021 and a SAC 2021 Book!
Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: October 10th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars