Hey Grrls! Today I am bringing you a totally rad unspoilery review of Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu! I hope y'all enjoy it! now let's get this party started!
From Goodreads:
Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.
Viv’s mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon Viv is forging friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.
My Critique:
Content warning: sexual assault, rape.
Vivian Carter has lived all her life in a small Texas town. She thought that she'd always have to deal with impossible sexist dress codes and sexual harassment that followed her around the high school
Until the day she has enough and takes a page from the Riot Grrrl movement that her mother was apart of back in the day and she creates a feminist Zine called Moxie.
When I first heard about this book last year I knew I had to pick it up. mainly because I love stories about kicking a*^ girls who start movements and makes changes!
and when all the girls joined together, in the end, I felt like tearing up because those girls found their voices and they weren't gonna let themselves be put down!
I wish it was a required reading book for boys and girls in high school.
one to show boys that you don't treat girls like sexual objects and to show girls it is ok to stand up for your beliefs and your rights.
this book gave me all the good fuzzy feeling that a contemporary should give. plus Viv does have a love interest that wants to help with her movement. Seth knows that woman are much more than a sex symbol and he wants to promote that!
I also like that the author added websites in the back of the book for the readers to have a voice too!
All in all this book was a complete 5 out 5 star read for me and I encourage everyone to pick this book up today!
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