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S. Walden
Book ArchiveContemporaryNew AdultMolten
Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend. She learns that swim team members participate in a "Fantasy Slut League," scoring points for their sexual acts with unsuspecting girls.
Brooke, wracked with guilt over her friend's death, decides to infiltrate the league by becoming one of the "unsuspecting girls," and exact revenge on the boys who stole away her best friend. An unexpected romance complicates her plans, and her dogged pursuit of justice turns her reckless as she underestimates just how far the boys will go to keep their sex club a secret.
(Please take the content warning seriously: This is a New Adult fiction book with mature themes. It contains graphic sex and language and an explicit description of sexual violence.)
I normally don’t include any kind of warnings for readers in my recommendations, but in the case of Going Under, I think it’s important you know that this book deals with tragedy and assault in a very personal and profound way. You deserve to know that if you have any sort of trauma in your past, this may not be a book you would want to read. That said, this book is riveting, well-written, tragic, and eye-opening. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a not-so-typical, emotional roller coaster of a romance story. [April 2013]