Exit, Pursued by a Bear
by:
E.K. Johnston (author)
Veronica Mars meets William Shakespeare in E.K. Johnston’s latest brave and unforgettable heroine.Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, this doesn’t mean what you think it means. At PHHS, the cheerleaders don’t cheer for the sports teams; they are the...
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Veronica Mars meets William Shakespeare in E.K. Johnston’s latest brave and unforgettable heroine.Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, this doesn’t mean what you think it means. At PHHS, the cheerleaders don’t cheer for the sports teams; they are the sports team—the pride and joy of a tiny town. The team’s summer training camp
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781101994580 (1101994584)
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
This book is brilliant and painful and beautiful and necessary and I read it in one sitting from midnight-ish to 3 am ish, lol.Let's start with the trigger warning, which is mildly spoilerish. There is rape (off the page/non-graphic), medical and police coverage of the aftermath, abortion and ptsd/e...
Because I'm not sure I'll be able to properly summarise this book without getting all teary-eyed (the hormones I'm currently injecting daily make my moods a bit of a roller-coaster), I am resorting to the blurb: Veronica Mars meets William Shakespeare in E.K. Johnston's latest brave and unforgetta...
Initial reaction: I am most definitely in the minority of opinions surrounding this book. Having said that, "Exit, Pursued by a Bear" definitely has its heart in the right place and I think had the intention of being an inspiring read with a protagonist who, in the aftermath of her rape, faces life ...
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato This was not my first book by Johnston. I read A Thousand Nights last year and even though I didn’t love it, I fell in love with the author’s writing style so when I heard about this book, I KNEW I WANTED to read it. Little did I know at that ...
[content warning: both the book and this post contain discussion of sexual assault and rape. Skip this one if you need to. <3] Continuing this week’s theme, I can’t quite manage to review this one in the normal sense. It’s a book that I loved deeply and that I felt deeply, but which I’m having troub...
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