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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

January 30, 2018 / 04 STARS, 2018 JANUARY, PORENSTEIN AR NOVELS

Girls and Sex Book Cover Girls and Sex
Peggy Orenstein
Family & Relationships
Harper
March 29, 2016
Hardcover / Audiobook
320

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow’s women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls’ sex lives in the modern world. While the media has focused—often to sensational effect—on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Girls and Sex Peggy Orenstein brings much more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s lives; what it means to be the “the perfect slut” and why many girls scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault. In Orenstein’s hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic “truths;” rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue on a potent, often silent, subtext of American life today—giving readers comprehensive and in-depth information with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.

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WrensReads Review:

This book was full of factual studies, interviews with all types of girls (sexual orientation, race, background, etc) and about their ignorance with sex. A lot of this book was just proving we need a lot more sex education when it comes to the female body and what goes on with you. As many people already know, sex education is something that is lacking in some educations and that is something that needs to be addressed since that is the age that people start feeling things and exploring with each other.

This book does talk about rap, sexual assault, sex and has some cussing from the interviewees; but it was really enlightening and something I would suggest people read if they want to know that other people have went / are going through some similar situations that you might have. Orenstein talks about some really uncomfortable stuff, so I would advise a preparation of the heart and mind before diving into this book.

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Okay… this was a needed read. Let me think about how to write a review on this.

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Let’s talk about sex, baby. 🎵

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Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, #01: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy

January 16, 2018 / 04 STARS, 2018 JANUARY, CC YA TALES FROM THE SHADOWHUNTER ACADEMY

Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy Book Cover Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy
Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan,
Juvenile Fiction
Simon and Schuster
February 17, 2015
Audiobook
40

Simon Lewis never thought he’d become a Shadowhunter…and now he has the chance. One of ten adventures in Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy. After living as a Mundane and a Vampire, Simon never thought he would become a Shadowhunter, but today he begins his training at Shadowhunter Academy. This standalone e-only short story follows the adventures of Simon Lewis, star of the #1 New York Times bestselling series The Mortal Instruments, as he trains to become a Shadowhunter. Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy features characters from Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments, Infernal Devices, and the upcoming Dark Artifices and Last Hours series. Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy is written by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan.

WrensReads Review:

“Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.”

So we start where Simon is packing his back to go to Wizarding School Shadowhunter Academy, where he is going to learn to fight, learn the history, and then possibly not transcend into the army of the angels.

It was very interesting to get back to the roots of the Shadow World Clare dreamed up for us. Simon is dealing with a lot. He doesn’t know everything that happened to him and doesn’t really remember his past-but-other-parallel-line self. He doesn’t remember who he loved, but he still feels all the feelings he had.

He still knows that he has a deep connection with Clary and that it was a tangled mess. He still knows that he might have had stronger relations with Izzy. He knows that he was once a hero, but he doesn’t know if he is still that person that can be a hero.

But… he also thinks him and Jace were really close. So there is some confusion with how he feels.
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The writing in this was really refreshing. I didn’t ever enjoy the writing style of The Mortal Instruments, as you would know if you read my review, but the story was always a strong one. The writing here is a lot better (even though it is a novella) and the characters are still loved.

I think it is important to read these before The Dark Artifices. I didn’t, and I already know how some things end. So if you don’t want spoilers, I would read this after you finish The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices and The Bane Chronicles, but before you read The Dark Artifices.

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Ruined #01: Ruined

January 7, 2018 / 04 STARS, ATINTERA YA RUINED

Ruined Book Cover Ruined
Ruined
Amy Tintera
Juvenile Fiction
HarperTeen
May 3, 2016
Hardcover
368

Amy Tintera’s new YA fantasy trilogy blends the romance of Kiera Cass’s Selection series and the epic stakes of Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love. Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war; her parents were killed and her sister was kidnapped. Even though Em is only a useless Ruined—completely lacking any magic—she is determined to get revenge. Her plan is simple: She will infiltrate the enemy’s kingdom, posing as the crown prince’s betrothed. She will lead an ambush. She will kill the king and everything he holds dear, including his son. The closer Em gets to the prince, though, the more she questions her mission. Her rage-filled heart begins to soften. But with her life—and her family—on the line, love could be Em’s deadliest mistake.

WrensReads Review:

What would you do to free your people? Kill a princess? Mary a prince? Plan the downfall of a monopolizing kingdom?

Well, Emelina Flores will do anything.

She is the daughter of a once all-powerful queen, but she doesn’t have any of the powers of her people. The Ruined, as they are called, have super-human powers that basically scare those who don’t. That is, besides Emelina, because she just doesn’t have any like the rest of her family does.

Well, when the kingdom of Lera kills the King and Queen of Ruina (where The Ruined live) and kidnap the future queen, Emelina’s younger sister Olivia, Emelina is ready to do whatever it takes to get her back and protect those she loves. But when she starts to fall for man she is suppose to end up killing, she starts to doubt herself.

I absolutely love the slow-burn and the non-instalove. They end up realizing they may have more in common than they thought.

So, Emelina poses as Mary, the princess betrothed to Prince Casimir, and marries the prince in order to learn where her sister is being kept and about the people she loathes. Little does she know that she will become more understanding and will realize her plan isn’t the only plan.

I love this because it is political, and politics never come in black and white. You understand why Lera did what they did, but you also understand why Ruina is doing what they are doing as well. You kind of feel yourself torn between the two and asking yourself why we can’t compromise and all get along and skip in the fields of flowers together while holding hands.

What I really want to talk about is how men and women are equal in this book. The women are guards just like the men, the love-relationships are not defined by gender and no on freaks out about anything. Like seriously anyone can do anything and it isn’t weird no matter what your gender is. Like it doesn’t seem out of the ordinary at all and I absolutely love it.

I’m anxious for the next book!

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