Virtual Book Tour of Going Under by S. Walden is presented by Reading Addiction Blog Tours, March 19 - 21. Ebook is currently 99 cents and definitely worth it! Purchase links at bottom.
March 19th
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March 20th
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March 21st
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16. YA Book Addict
Title: Going UnderPublisher: Penny Press
About the Book: Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend. She learns that swim team members participate in a “Fantasy Slut League,” scoring points for their sexual acts with unsuspecting girls.
Brooke, wracked with guilt over her friend’s death, decides to infiltrate the league by becoming one of the “unsuspecting girls,” and exact revenge on the boys who stole away her best friend. An unexpected romance complicates her plans, and her dogged pursuit of justice turns her reckless as she underestimates just how far the boys will go to keep their sex club a secret.
(This is a New Adult fiction book with mature themes. It contains explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence.)
My Thoughts: I stayed up until 1AM reading this book because I just knew that I had to finish it. It was fantastic. The author took a very tough subject and handled it with great sensitivity. Brooke was perfect as the teenage protagonist against this group of boys who treated the girls in their school as toys. She was deluded, as a teenager would be, into thinking that she would be able to handle anything that came up on her own - and she wanted to avenge her friend Beth's death. Along the way, though, she does come up with some colorful allies.
Terry, the head chef from her job, becomes her computer hacker, and is able to get her all kinds of information that confirms her suspicions. Gretchen, her best friend from her old school, gets wrapped up in the plot when one of the swim team members takes a liking to her. Then there is Ryan, they are instantly attracted to each other, though they each seem to be trying to keep their distance. Brooke is trying not to have any romantic attachments, because she thinks it will thwart her plans for revenge. Try as she might though, she can't stay away from Ryan. He ends up playing an unlikely role in the end anyway.
Speaking of endings, I thought the author wrapped this up beautifully. It could have been a tragic ending, but it contained hope and healing. I will agree with the disclaimer above though, there is explicit language and descriptions of sexual violence, but they were essential to the story.
~I received a complimentary ecopy of this book from Reading Addiction Blog Tours in exchange for my unbiased review.~
About the author: S. Walden used to teach English before making the best decision of her life by becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Georgia with her very supportive husband who prefers physics textbooks over fiction and has a difficult time understanding why her characters must have personality flaws. She is wary of small children, so she has a Westie instead. Her dreams include raising chickens and owning and operating a beachside inn on the Gulf Coast (chickens included). When she's not writing, she's thinking about it.
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1 comment:
Fab review! I gave this one five stars. When it began I feared I would never warm up to Brooke and dreaded writing the review but I changed my mind a little way in.
PS Glad to have found your blog today via the tour links :)
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