This post is filled with spoilers. You’ve been warned.
I’ve always wanted to read a Courtney Summers book because of all the positive things I’ve heard on her writing, characters and the issues she tackles. I read This Is Not A Test and enjoyed it a lot because of the complicated female protagonist who didn’t fit into the cookie cutter mold of being “likable” nor should she for the crap she’s gone through. I decided to read her two other books, Some Girls Are and Cracked Up To Be, for Sexual Assault in Lit Week.
In both Some Girls Are and Cracked Up To Be, you have sexual assault occurring as part of the main plot (more evident in Some Girls Are and more subtle in Cracked Up Up To Be). What links these two books together is the theme of the bystander/witness. Those who failed to report rape that they’ve witnessed or are made aware of as seen with the characters of Kara (Some Girls Are) and Parker (Cracked Up To Be).
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