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A review by eloise_bradbooks
The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes
4.25
A very strong, powerful and needed book about finding the strength to accept painful truths, about standing up to disgusting men, condoning sexual assault and fighting against r*pe culture, about female empowerment and sorority.
A strong point is also the diversity within this friend group (MC is Latina, queer, autistic, with selective mutism, secondary characters include non binary SC, black SCs, sapphic/bi SCs).
I hope many people get to read books like this one, to know they're not alone, or to understand what it could feel like to go through this, and to see how the system can work well in some ways, but not in other ways...
Ultimately though, it isn't just a book to learn about sexual assault. It's also about friendship, possibily accepting romance after trauma, family issues and coming of age.
A strong point is also the diversity within this friend group (MC is Latina, queer, autistic, with selective mutism, secondary characters include non binary SC, black SCs, sapphic/bi SCs).
I hope many people get to read books like this one, to know they're not alone, or to understand what it could feel like to go through this, and to see how the system can work well in some ways, but not in other ways...
Ultimately though, it isn't just a book to learn about sexual assault. It's also about friendship, possibily accepting romance after trauma, family issues and coming of age.