Woman Reading

Intense.

All the Rage was a fictitious look inside victim shaming and blaming. It’s about how easy it is to call the victim a liar, or tell her she asked for it. It’s about a girl attempting to live in a town that turned it’s back on her, which aids in helping her to turn her back on herself. It filled me with allll the rage.

It also filled me with all the sadness. It filled me with all the helplessness. I spent my time reading All the Rage just begging for someone, anyone, to see what was happening. As a mother, as a woman, what was happening to the MC, Romy, in this story was just horrific. The worst part is that it happens all the time. It was a snapshot of our world.

There was one moment in particular that stood out for me, which is saying a lot since the whole book cut deep. In this one scene Romy is sitting at her house and she’s listening to a radio show in which the DJ’s are debating sexual assault. The main DJ is saying how it’s the parents fault because they knew there was this situation where there would be alcohol and drugs, and these types of poor decisions are inevitable. He goes on to say that the ‘poor boy’ had his whole life ahead of him and now it’s ruined. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of the rapist being turned into the victim. And it’s all too common.

All the Rage itself was a good book. It had a decently paced plot, and it didn’t attempt to solve all the answers. In fact, not solving all the answers was the only way that this book could go. There won’t be a happily ever after for these girls, not wrapped up in less than 350 pages. Anything less than the truth would have done everyone a disservice.

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