eleventeen's Reviews > The Female of the Species

Holy shit i've been on a roll with really hard-hitting, striking YA contemporaries. Look, this has trigger warnings galore (rape, sexual assault, animal death), and there is darkness that seeps into the cracks of every page even as you're reading about typical high school parties and breakups and the preacher's daughter and kittens and falling in love, but, just...it has something new to say, and such a new way to say it? It's a super short read though its length feels right, and this book made me root for an unexpected heroine and even moreso an unexpected love and I LOVE that this explored it in a way that felt REAL.