Mindy McGinnis

The Female of the Species

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Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a riveting contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner.
Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.
Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence.
While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people. Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna’s body was discovered. And not with Peekay, the preacher’s kid with a defiant streak who befriends Alex while they volunteer at an animal shelter. Not anyone.
As their senior year unfolds, Alex’s darker nature breaks out, setting these three teens on a collision course that will change their lives forever.
2017 Tayshas List Selection * YALSA Top 10 Best YA Fiction of 2017 * School Libray Journal Best of 2016 * Junior Library Guild Selection * The Globe and Mail Best Books of 2016 * Bustle’s Best Young Adult Books of 2016 * Mashable’s 8 Best YA Books of 2016 * Seventeen's 10 Best YA Books of 2016 * CCBC Choices 2017 * 2018–2019 Louisiana Readers' Choice Award Nominee * 2019 & 2020 Choose to Read Ohio Booklist
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241 printed pages
Publication year
2016
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  • Diana Catshared an impression8 years ago
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile
    💞Loved Up
    💧Soppy

    An excelent book. Deals with very important topics like slut shaming and rape culture in a very real way. I definitely reccomend this book.

  • benteskoushared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading

    Elsker de sarkastiske bemærkninger. Og slutningen... Saras værk 👏🏼

  • a out of contextshared an impression4 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    💧Soppy

    This was... A lot. Like a lot lot. But I think is one that is very important. I would have like to resolve some things (particularly with jack and branley) but I get that not everyone gets a happy ending and people are not perfect. Remaind yourself that it's never your fault, that bad people deserve it bad and that if you allow the jokes and the molestation who everyone seems to think are insignificant but later become assaults and other monstrous things, you are contributing to rape culture.
    So f them. Really hard. Better to be with no friends than to be friends with rapists. Better rapists to have bruises and their skin thorne apart than having girls abused.

Quotes

  • Nati Bremmenhas quoted5 years ago
    It’s easier to like animals than people
  • Seth Bingohas quoted7 years ago
    But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.
  • benteskouhas quoted4 years ago
    I hold my phone tightly, too aware that the present is all we have if I can’t mention the past and she won’t talk about the future.

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