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Justice doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t erase what
happened. It doesn’t make you who you were before. I’m becoming someone else –
someone else I’m figuring out how to be.
- Daisy Whitney
If my memory serves me correctly, The Mockingbirds was the
very first book I read in 2011, and since I liked it so much, it is only
fitting that it is the first review I feature here.
At Themis Academy where the story is set, the ‘powers that
be’ are of the opinion that the students ‘know better’ and would never be
involved in anything remotely wrong, let alone against the law. But that is
obviously not the case, or we wouldn’t have a story.
The main character, Alex after being date raped while drunk,
seeks the help of The Mockingbirds, an underground justice system for students,
made up of students. I felt for Alex, a girl who thought she’d go through all
four years of high school without making a wave, and then found herself the
victim of a horrendous crime. While she is the central character of this story,
the author should be commended for creating some of the best supporting
characters I’ve seen in a while. Each one of them had something significant to
add without taking over the story, and I liked many of them just as much as
Alex.
This story may be a work of fiction, but date rape isn’t,
and there are far too many girls who ‘get over’ their experiences alone and in
silence. While The Mockingbirds aren’t a reality (though I wish they were),
Daisy Whitney, through Alex speaks about the importance of standing up for
yourself and for what’s right.
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