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    All the Rage

    By Courtney Summers

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    From the bestselling author of Sadie, Courtney Summers' All the Rage is a powerful novel about a teenage girl who stays strong and speaks up.

    'The footsteps stop but the birds are still singing, singing about a girl who wakes up on a dirt road and doesn't know what happened to her the night before . . .'

    Romy Grey wears her lipstick like armour, ever since the night she was raped by Kellan Turner, the sheriff's son.

    Romy refuses to be a victim, but speaking up has cost her everything. No one wants to believe Kellan is not the golden boy they thought he was, and Romy has given up trying to make herself heard.

    But when another girl goes missing after a party, Romy must decide whether the cost of her silence might be more than she can bear.

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    PublisherPan Macmillan
    Release dateAug 13, 2015
    ISBN9781509817603
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    Courtney Summers

    Courtney Summers was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1986 and currently resides in a small town not far from there. At age fourteen, she dropped out of high school to pursue her education independently and spent those years figuring out what she wanted to do with her life. At eighteen, she knew she was meant to write. She is the author of All the Rage, This is Not a Test and Some Girls Are. When she is not writing, Courtney loves playing video games, watching horror movies and obsessing over the zombie apocalypse. Her favourite colour is green and she's a total feminist.

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    • 4/5
      3.25-3.5 StarsA good plot. An authentic representation of not only rape culture and the thoughts and feelings of a rape victim but also the difficulties that come with speaking out. The novel is gritty and it can be brutal at times, but the story is thought-provoking. For older teens and adults.Net Galley Feedback
    • 3/5
      I honestly believe the GR reviews have over sold this book. On the one hand, I think for a YA novel it's good that the only things described in great detail are repeated and made easier by context. On the other hand, I think that paints a poor picture of rape. The main character often reflects about death, which is more common of a theme than rape in this novel. While death may be easier and more relatable to teens, that doesn't mean it should be a smoke screen for rape. Rape, even between two minors, should not be sugar coated and hidden.

      I am perhaps being too critical on a well-written book. I don't know that I will continue to read Summers' novels after this one, although I am not ruling them out. I just felt like certain details were very distracting from the point, and honestly I may just need to re-read this book with fresh eyes.
    • 4/5
      For more reviews, gifs, Cover Snark and more, visit A Reader of Fictions.Courtney Summers writes the sort of books that keep me from entirely abandoning the darker YA contemporaries. The thing is that the contemporary novels about tough subjects are either so incredibly powerful and hit me so hard, or they really don’t hit the right note with me. A lot of times they just make me sad, where Summers’ make me angry and they make me think. Books like All the Rage are so very important for teens and adults alike, because they highlight the incredibly shitty way our culture handles rape.When you read a Courtney Summers novel, you know a couple of things before you get started: it’s going to be real, and it’s going to hurt. Summers’ books are harsh, which is an odd word for books that also manage to be so beautiful. They’re brutal and honest. The characters’ emotions are so raw that it’s, for me at least, impossible not to feel along with them. Their pain is so immediate, so RIGHT THERE.I pick through clothes that cover all the places of me that seem like an insultRomy was raped before the start of All the Rage by one of the town golden boys. She was drunk and he raped her, claiming she wanted it. He happened to be the son of the town sheriff, though, so her report was ignored. Romy became “that girl who falsely accused the sheriff’s son of rape,” a reviled pariah in the town. The golden boy and his friends remain beloved and popular. Brock and Tina, two popular kids, make rape jokes to bully Romy. They do this without any repercussions or guilt, because the sheriff obviously doesn’t give a shit.Every person’s going to react to something like that differently. Romy pulls into herself. She wears unflattering clothing, buying the worst, cheapest bras she can find. The main goal of Romy’s life is avoiding notice, always hoping that someone else will bear the brunt of the bullying. She also lets some of her spirit (and her pain) show in her bright red lipstick and nail polish.My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl’s sport, but it’s not. It’s armor.The particularly painful parts of All the Rage for me were when Romy thought about other girls. There’s this moment where someone’s talking about their baby to come, sex unknown, and Romy desperately hopes that it’s not a girl. She so badly doesn’t want anyone to ever go through what she went through, but knows that any girl isn’t safe from that experience.What a stupid thing it is, to care about a girl.There actually is a very sweet and sad romance in All the Rage. Leon, who works with Romy at the diner, has a crush on her. She’s not sure but decides to give him a chance, because she likes that he doesn’t know about her past; she can be someone who wasn’t raped, someone alive. With Leon, Romy alternates between really wanting that physical relationship and being completely terrified of it, pushing him away. He’s confused, but Leon always respects her boundaries, which completely stuns Romy. I like the way that the book ends with them, too, because it’s unclear if they’ll be able to work through everything. I hope that they can, because she deserves someone good in her life.“What if she was [raped]?”“Then she’s better off dead.”Despite all of that, Romy does have one thing going for her: parents who love her. Romy’s family life wasn’t always great, because her father was a drunk, but Romy’s mom finally left him. Now, Romy and her mom have moved in with Todd. He’s not her real dad, but he loves and cares for her the way her real dad wouldn’t or couldn’t. Romy’s mom loves her too. They don’t understand exactly what she’s going through, but they do love her, and she does know that. It really serves to show that, even with that loving support, rape wasn’t something she could deal with.All the Rage is aptly titled, because it’s what anyone reading this book should feel. My heart aches for all the girls out there who go through this, and I hope society changes fucking soon.
    • 4/5
      This book broke me. I’m gonna try to review it, but if it comes out as gibberish, sorry.

      I was looking forward to reading All The Rage, I saw the description of it a few months ago and it caught my attention. Rape culture has been in the spotlight lately, but still nothing has really changed and this book is based on the rape culture problem. I never read a Courtney Summers book. So i wasn’t sure what to expect from All The Rage. Romy is an outcast and treated like shit at school because she was raped by a popular student who happens to be the sheriff’s son, but no one believes her because nothing happened to the boy who did it. But the story opens up with Romy remembering it and waking up in the woods, this confused the hell out of me for like a third of the book because the next chapter says 2 weeks earlier yet everyone is shunning her already so the rape already happened, yet the first chapter made it seem like it had just happened and the story was now going back before it did, but no. Once I got all that straightened out I was more captivated by the plot.

      How Romy is treated is awful, how she feels about herself is hard to read, and how she lashes out and keeps everything to herslef almost makes you dislike her, but you get why she is behaving that way. The ending took me by surprise, it felt unfinished though, so maybe a sequel? I cried my eyes out at times and I don’t want to go into much detail about what happens, you just need to read it. It’s a hard read emotionally, but a good story that needs to be read.
    • 4/5
      All the Rage is a timely book. It reminds the reader of the dangers of partying, the horrors of date rape, and that "no" means no. The book also reveals the extent to which social media pervades young people's lives, and how much damage can be done with postings, videos, and social media in general.Romy Grey is a tough young woman, and an interesting protagonist. Her struggles to find her way out of the repercussions of her rape and her loss of reputation propel the plot forward. Her final vindication and alliance with a former tormentor make for an interesting conclusion.I would recommend this in the library to readers interested in contemporary topics such as date rape, relationships, partying and the negative side of social media.
    • 5/5
      This is a rough, beautiful book that explores the after math of rape and the brutal reality of rape culture. Ostracized by her community for accusing the sheriff's son of rape, Romy Grey becomes tried to find ways to escape from what happened to her while being unable to forget it because of the constant bullying from her classmates. She wears red lipstick and nails as a kind of army and takes comfort from the people she works with at a small diner outside of town. But the sense of disassociation from herself grows after a girl goes missing under potentially violent circumstances.This is a heavy, emotionally wracking story. It is also beautifully written. Summers perfectly captures Romy's voice and inner journey. Such a powerful story, one that made me cry several times. Highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      There are two things that made this a difficult read for me. First, it's a pretty harsh look at America's rape culture. It looks at how a rape victim is treated by law enforcement, by schools, by families, by friends, by fellow adolescents, and more. Romy Grey's mother and stepfather come across as well-meaning. But even though they believed their daughter and try to help her heal from her ordeal, their expectations for her and how they handle her isn't always particularly good for her well-being.Second, and this was really tough, is that it's clear very early on in the book that Romy handles the experience in ways that push people away. This is neither right nor wrong; it's not like there's a wrong way to handle being raped. But it does mean that, for instance, an early interaction she has with another character is going to play out with bad scenes further down the plot. A simple example that doesn't give much away is that she chooses not to tell other characters what has happened to her. In fact, she lies to cover things up. But people don't take well to being lied to, and so when they realize they've been lied to, Romy is going to have to either lie more, reveal what she doesn't want to reveal, or just be the person known for lying. None of which are going to result in those relationships improving.It feels very real, and is very tough to take because Summers tells the story so well that I felt some of the emotional wringer Romy went through, and I knew very specific ways it was going to get worse.Still, I highly recommend the book.
    • 5/5
      This book is about the rape of Romy Grey, a “loser” in town, by the sheriff’s “golden boy” son Kellan. Romy does what so many victims do, she does not press charges because no one believes her, and ends up internalizing the event. This affects every area of her life. However, she is forced to face the rape and all of the aftermath when another girl goes missing. The conclusion is a surprise, but it is a story worth telling. The author deals with this subject honestly and compassionately.
    • 3/5
      This novel is timely, considering the recent public debates on rape and how these cases are handled (especially the social media aspects). The details are not clarified about what exactly happened to the narrator in this book (as is often the case in many real-life cases), but the reader is treated to what it is like to continue life and live in a community after an experience of rape. A fascinating look, although the novel's disjointed timeline through me a few times and I sort of wished for a more chronological approach.
    • 4/5
      Romy lives in a small town where everyone knows everyone's business. But after she claims rape against the golden boy, the sheriff's son Kellan, he's sent away and she becomes the girl everyone hates. Branded a liar, she becomes friendless, bullied relentlessly and she withdraws into herself, keeping to herself. She takes great pride in the art of applying nail polish and lipstick, these things she can control, and she isn't herself without them. Then her former best friend goes missing after a senior year party, Romy is found the next morning partially undressed on the road with no memory of the party or of anything after. How did she get there? Did she have anything to do with Penny's disappearance? Everyone still looks at her with disdain. She is the girl that should be missing, would anyone care if she was missing,or worse, if she died?This was such an emotional packed novel. My heart broke for Romy, going to school day after day, not knowing what mean thing she'd have to endure. The sheriff who doesn't believe his son did what she said he did, keeps questioning her. When she was at her most vulnerable and needed someone that cared, no one did. Bullying is a topic that really angers me, so much of it goes on, and people doing the bullying don't realize the lifelong impact. When she gets a job in a different town and starts to develop a relationship with a boy there, she still can't trust and keeps pushing him away, she doesn't want him to know things about her, she doesn't want her two lives to intercept. She is so full of anger, but pushes everyone away who wants to help her.This book is well written, a young adult book that doesn't read juvenile. I wish there were books like this back when I was a young adult.
    • 4/5
      This was a hard read - it was good and important and I recommend it - but it is hard read. But sometime important books ARE hard ones to read.
    • 3/5
      I received an advanced reader's copy from Griffin Teen Sweepstakes in return for an honest review.

      All the Rage takes place in a small town where who you know is more important than the truth. After Romy is raped by the Sheriff's son and no one believes her, she becomes an outcast at school and bullied for her supposed lie. When both her and another (beloved) girl go missing one night and she is the only one to be found, the hatred and hostility toward her intensifies. Her only solace in this messed up world is a boy name Leon, but soon he too becomes entangled in the world she tried to keep separate.

      Sadly, this book shows many of the realities of a small town and of high school (and even beyond) dynamics and bullying. I wouldn't call it dark, but it is undeniably a heavy and heartbreaking read. Rage builds up in Romy for all of the injustices that have happened to her and you can see that anger slowly take over. She is a broken character, certainly not perfect, but who could be in circumstances such as hers. I despised most of the secondary characters (aside from her mom, Todd, and Leon), but Summers still paints them with a shred of humanity, which makes the villains all the more real.

      I have heard many great things about Summers' writing, but this was my first book of hers. It will definitely not be my last.
    • 4/5
      Gritty and beautifully written. The subject matter is depressing though; I would love if Courtney wrote a fluffy romance one of these days...
    • 4/5
      ‘…they’d think of me the way they think of me now, think of it as some kind of natural conclusion to my story, sad, maybe, deserved it, well no, of course no one does, but. That girl. You can see it. It’s written on her.’Romy Grey lives on the “wrong side” of a small town where everybody knows everybody. She’s the girl that no one trusts, the type of girl that everybody expects to be nothing but trouble. When she’s raped at a party and accuses the sheriff’s son of the attack, she quickly loses her best friend and becomes the focus of harassment from every person in her town. Romy lives as inconspicuous as she can from that day on but when a local girl goes missing in addition to news of an attack similar to Romy’s, she realize she can’t keep quiet anymore.I devoured this book in a single day. I couldn’t tear my eyes away even if I wanted to. This book, guys, encompasses everything that is wrong with this society. Where a woman can accuse a man of abuse and not for a second will they believe her, simply because the man has always been considered an upstanding member of the community. Because naturally, the facade we put on for the public is completely our true selves and can immediately absolve someone of any accusations. This was a terrifyingly realistic account of the aftermath of rape, of small town mentality, the immediate stereotypes that get doled out and how truly horrid people can be to one another.‘I rest my middle finger across my lips; red on red, the most subtle way I can tell him to fuck himself because I’m not stupid enough to say it out loud in a world that’s his fan club.’The writing was course and raw but had a finesse to it that completely encapsulated the expected horror of the situation. The story did get a little jumbled when it switches between “Now” and “Two Weeks Before” and it was difficult at first to re-sort the sequence of events in your mind but once you realize what transpired you’ll want to go back to the beginning with a fresh, knowledgeable look at it all. Summers is unflinching in her determination to accurately represent all that’s wrong with rape culture and subsequent victim blaming and while it was a painful story to read, it’s one incapable of being forgotten.
    • 4/5
      Note to anyone who has an active sex life: do yourself a favor and remember that when someone says "no" even if they've already consented to taking off their shirt get off and respect their boundaries. ESPECIALLY if they are inebriated. Rape culture is real. This book is real stuff, read it, learn from it, and stop looking for reasons to not believe a person when they cry rape because everyone knows it's harder to disprove something than it is to prove it.Romy is living in hell. No one believes her, why should they? She was wearing a skimpy top and a short skirt, she likes to wear that flashy red color on her lips and her nails. She has no strings to pull in her tiny town and the golden boy would never do something like what she's accusing him of. The popular kids hate her, the grownups think she's some kind of harlot, and all she wants is to make enough money and get out of this town. In her quest for an escape she lands herself a decent job in a diner at the farthest edge of the city into the next and meets some unlikely friends and someone who for the first time since her rape respects her boundaries.This book is a special gem with it's flaws but once you get past the jolting writing and start realizing it has everything to do with the narrator's trauma, it tells a powerful story that continues to be relevant until powerful people stop turning a blind eye to what they can't manipulate.I very much recommend this book for reading. I didn't think it warranted the discussion questions at the end of the book but they would make for a good topic discussion in a classroom setting. For parents who may not like their kids reading the f--, s--, a-- or any other bad word there are a ton of those in here but honestly there was not a day that went by in high school where I didn't hear such vocabulary. It can also get graphic and can trigger victims.Here are some examples of why Romy didn't "just report it to the authorities" which also may be triggering for some: Kellan her rapist finds her drunk at a party and takes her out to a car where he penetrates her even though she is obviously not aroused (graphic descriptions of non arousal and pain.) Romy's underwear and bra are stolen from the gym locker room while she was changing and used in a cruel prank later on with two school statues to represent her and another male. When Romy finds herself alone with love interest Leon they engage in heavy petting before she is triggered and asks him to stop, he obliges. When Penny goes missing after encouraging Romy to come out and speak the truth the Sheriff Turner (aka Kellan's father) accuses her of lascivious conduct at a Wake Lake party where she has no recollections of participating in. She later finds pictures taken of her shirt being opened and exposing herself on her own phone. It all culminates in the end when Romy discovers she would have been a repeat rape victim because she was drugged and taken away to be raped but was ultimately saved by Penny who confronted the rapist.
    • 5/5
      It’s not often that I finish a book and I’m left speechless. Only Courtney Summers is capable of shutting me up! Lol! This is a story told by a girl who is left to feel that it’s all her fault she was raped. Between the girls in the locker room treating Romy like she’s worthless, and the local sherif intimidating her…it’s no wonder she keeps quiet about her pain.I feel very saddened that in our modern society, girls raped by popular, rich, handsome boys/men still need to fear speaking out about their abuse. Even other women blame the victim, strip her down even more than the attacker. I’m hoping with this book, Courtney Summers makes a difference; gets people thinking, talking, about changing rape culture.Well done Courtney!
    • 2/5
      In a brutal, depressing story, Romy Grey is raped, bullied by mean students, and ill-treated by authorities. Except for her parents, everyone in town seems to know what has happened to this ostracized young woman, yet sympathy and assistance seem to be nonexistent. Her life is filled with an abundance of trauma and self-loathing, but the unrelenting abuse is so over the top that the story borders on absurdity. The author’s writing is truly compelling, but the unnecessary expletives that pepper Romy’s vocabulary serve only to detract from her message. There is nothing likeable about Romy and her strange preoccupation with her nail polish; ultimately, the reader’s sympathy for her circumstances is likely to wear thin as the story progresses. This often-visited young adult theme spins out its gritty narrative with a confusing series of flashbacks that can make it difficult for readers to follow the story’s progression. As a result, this book is far easier to lay aside than it is to keep reading, a situation that even Penny’s disappearance cannot mitigate, especially since astute readers will figure out that mystery almost as soon as the pretty teen vanishes.
    • 4/5
      Romy is not well-liked at school. Her father was a drunk and it has melded into her life with the other citizens in town, including her classmates. She feels as if no one wants her alive at all.She works as a waitress at Swan's and there is a boy there that she is becoming close to. He brings feelings back to her that she is really trying to forget about her past.Her once best friend, Penny, becomes the one person that she tries to hate the most. She tries to separate herself from how much she and Penny were so close at one time.There will be the annual Wake Lake party for the seniors of the high school and this is where all the rough stuff in the novel takes place.I really liked how the author makes it easy for us to understand the duality of having been through Romy's situation and trying to make herself feel whole.