Review: The Nowhere Girls

 I'm gonna be pretty much honest about this, I think I put this book aside like three times since Wednesday. Today's FriDay right? yeah. but I was kind of really glad I picked up this book. Seriously,  y'all should go check out Riveted by Simon tEEN. Seriously, their blog recs never let down.

Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process 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.

QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 4.9/5, I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER GET OVER A BOOK LIKE THIS.

Possible Trigger Tags:

1. Rape

2. Abuse

3. Sexism

4. Violence

5. Alcohol abuse

6. Groping

7. Derogatory terms used against women

8. Use of the s-word for women

WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE  BOOK'S: 

1. Writing Quality: The writing style is a bit boring, I will not lie. The first few chapters really don't invoke much in me because it's a bit slow and uninteresting. It flows well, but its not really interesting until the first four chapters or something. But once it does, oh god it gets better and better in the story. I seriously read this in a single evening and I really didn't have to get distracted after the third chapter. Though the sad part was that I didn't have much data left so I couldn't play Spotify and Spotify couldn't play the songs I wanted.

2. Character Development: I love the characters. They're all similar in a way but they're all so different. Erin is autistic, Rosina has problems as a queer punk personality at home, Grace is scared of fitting in. And yet somehow these girls are the same person when they become The Nowhere Girls and stand for each other, just to provide justice to Lucy and many other girls that Spencer, Ennis and Eric had scarred forever, or made them feel like less. Side note, those three men are the most disgusting men ever and they deserve to be castrated and their balls fed to hungry dogs. Seriously. I am so in awe of these girls because they're fighting their own inner demons while also fighting these outer demons. It's inspirational, okay?

3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 10/10.

4. Intellectual Depth: Women. I don't know from when, women have been seen as objects by men. Men with a fragile ego, men with the smallest dick in the whole damn universe who are so insecure of themselves that they think of women as objects as playthings. They think that women aren't qualified enough, or they don't deserve to be on the same plane as men, but in reality, they might deserve to be on a higher plane than men. If anyone says that times are changing and that women are getting a place in society nowadays, so there's no need for feminism, exit this blog right now because this blog is no place for misogynistic people here. Try bleeding like a tap for 5+ days straight and try to work with cramps, swollen feet and bloatedness and still act like everything's fucking fine, then we'll talk about equality. It's because of the fucking toxic male gaze women are afraid to be in public places alone or stay out late. You never know what would happen. A woman walks down a street and a man might walk the same way, the man might not even have any malicious intentions but the woman feels unsafe. IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS MALE GAZE THAT WOMEN FEEL UNSAFE SO PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT.

Shouting it loudly for the people in the back. WOMEN ARE IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE IF ANYONE IS STARING AT THEM CREEPILY OR STALKING THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE WEARING A SHORT SKIRT OR SHORTS. IT'S NEVER YOUR FAULT IF A CREEP IS STARING AT YOU. NEVER.

CONSENT IS IMPORTANT. CONSENT IS SEXY. RAPE IS NOT. IT IS NOT SEXY WHEN YOU FORCE YOURSELF ON A WOMAN, IT'S NEVER SEXY IF YOU'RE MAKING A WOMAN DRUNK BECAUSE YOU WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH HER. IT'S STILL RAPE.

5. Plot: The plot is a bit heavy on the triggers. But I love it, I think this was something that needed to be out there in the world. Seriously, women sticking up with one another against some small dicked men is what we need in this world. Like seriously, I love how these girls stand up for one another despite having a sexist of a coach and a fascist of a principal and their useless Chief Delaney. It's a plot definitely worth following.

OVERALL, A BEAUTIFUL READ, more folks need to read this book!