I really struggled with this book. Yes it should be required reading for teens, it's target audience, especially over-privileged boys.
It's set in a school full of such snobs, with it's elitist history of hazing, secret societies, etc, where the brainy and the sporty are worshiped as gods. It made my toes curl just reading about them.
One such demi god rapes another student, although the assault is not graphic the way it was written I found more irritating than upsetting. Knowing she stands no chance of justice, Quinn decides her attacker must die, and the book opens with her stalking a campus secruity officer with the aim of stealing his gun.
The book hops about, told from various people's viewpoints, something I find extremely annoying as I often forget who's narrating and have to check back. There's Quinn, a member of the privileged elite, Charlotte- who isn't, Max Somthing-hyphen- something, a nerd, and Seb, Charlotte's boyfriend who is a member of the sporty set
I found them all thoroughly unlikeable and was relieved to reach the last page.
It's set in a school full of such snobs, with it's elitist history of hazing, secret societies, etc, where the brainy and the sporty are worshiped as gods. It made my toes curl just reading about them.
One such demi god rapes another student, although the assault is not graphic the way it was written I found more irritating than upsetting. Knowing she stands no chance of justice, Quinn decides her attacker must die, and the book opens with her stalking a campus secruity officer with the aim of stealing his gun.
The book hops about, told from various people's viewpoints, something I find extremely annoying as I often forget who's narrating and have to check back. There's Quinn, a member of the privileged elite, Charlotte- who isn't, Max Somthing-hyphen- something, a nerd, and Seb, Charlotte's boyfriend who is a member of the sporty set
I found them all thoroughly unlikeable and was relieved to reach the last page.