In tracking down leads, Eden is shocked to discover not everyone agrees the students are victims. Some people feel the girls "brought it on themselves." Even worse, the school’s administration seems more concerned about protecting its reputation than its students.
With the anonymous sender threatening more emails, Eden finds an unlikely ally: the seven young women themselves. Banding together to find the perpetrator, the tables are about to be turned. The Slut Squad is fighting back!
A mixed review from me on this one.
I love (and hate) that we keep getting new books on this topic. Love that it's being brought up, hate that they keep being necessary. These are really important topics and I liked that this book pointed out that people react differently, they cope differently, and that all of those ways are valid.
However, this book isn't from the point of view of one of the girls affected, which feels like a missed opportunity to me. Eden keeps saying she understands how they feel, because her boyfriend talked about her with his friends, but while that's awful it's not remotely the same as having a nude leaked to an entire school and beyond.
I thought the pace was a bit weird, too. Eden spends a long time slloooooowwwwllllllyyyyy gathering lots of evidence and having a lot of newspaper meetings (do American schools have that kind of newspaper? With that many staff?) and then there's one very quick conversation when they figure it all out, and then it's two months later and everything is wrapped up in narration.
It's not an awful book; it's an important topic and I liked the characters and some of the moments they have. It just wasn't brilliant, sadly.
Revenge of the Sluts publishes on the 2nd February, 2021 in the US, and under the title Those Kinds of Girls on the 18th March, 2021 in the UK.
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