“It’s like now that I’m looking for inequality, I’m seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn’t I really see this before?”

Summary

It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl. . . .

Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin’s future seems bright―and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her.

But when “Bex” takes things too far and comes on to Marin, she’s shocked and horrified. Had she somehow led him on? Was it her fault?

When Marin works up the courage to tell the administration what happened, no one believes her. She’s forced to face Bex in class every day. Except now, he has an ax to grind.

But Marin isn’t about to back down. She uses the school newspaper to fight back and she starts a feminist book club at school. She finds allies in the most unexpected people, like “slutty” Gray Kendall, who she’d always dismissed as just another lacrosse bro. As things heat up at school and in her personal life, Marin must figure out how to take back the power and write her own rules.

Review

“Be flirty but not too flirty. Be confident but not aggressive. Be funny but in a low-key, quiet way. Eat cheeseburgers, but don’t get fat. Be chill, but don’t lose control.”

This book gave me epic Moxie vibes. A girl fighting for change in her world, fighting to make this world a better world. I honestly LOVED it. It was so much more than I expected, giving readers real insight into sexual harassment, (without getting to into the gory details) and a female protagonist that was knowledgeable, intelligent, and extremely relatable. You really found yourself rooting for her when she was fighting and feeling her lows as if they were your own.

“Remember, girl: It’s the best time in the history of the world to be you. You can do anything! You can do everything! You can be whatever you want to be!
Just as long as you follow the rules.”

I honestly could not put this book down. I was hanging onto every word, trudging through life until I could read more of this amazing book.

I can’t recommend this book more.

And honestly if you haven’t watched Moxie, it was honestly a really awesome movie, and you should totally watch it!