At the beginning of Alex’s second semester of her junior year at hoity-toity boarding school Themis Academy, she is date-raped by a guy that she hardly knows. Uncomfortable with the idea of going to the authorities and well aware that the administration finds the idea of someone being raped at their school unthinkable, Alex turns to the Mockingbirds, a student group formed to exact their own version of justice upon one another.
This is a great book, and handles a difficult subject really well. Some people may be uncomfortable reading it because it does have some fairly graphic descriptions of Alex’s rape as she remembers it in flashbacks. That said, I don’t doubt that it’s very realistic; the afterword mentions that the author was date-raped in college. I feel like this would be a great book for teenage girls to read, though I could totally see why some parents might not be too keen on that idea. Eh, they should read it anyway.
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