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Oct 27, 2019sloanelCPL rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Swallows is a good book about rape culture and girls/women fighting back. The book was a morbidly compulsive read for me partly because it was set in a HS boarding school in 2009. If I had to re-do HS as it was the first time (in the 60s) I'd be pretty sure I'd died and gone to hell. If I had to do HS now, or in a boarding school setting - ARGH! I feel sick at the thought. It was interesting to 'hear' the story from various characters -- mostly those on the side of 'right.' Different people knew different parts of the story. Just think if Alex had taught fencing at Stonebridge! “You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it’ll all work out in the end. But don’t be surprised when they figure out that you’ve been feeding them lies.”