Asking For It by Louise O'Neill

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Asking For It won the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature and I'd been looking forward to reading it for awhile.

Emma is a beautiful eighteen year old in Ireland.  After a party, Emma's parents discover her on the steps of their house bleeding and disoriented.  Emma can't remember what happened the night before and then pictures of the evening start emerging on social media and a criminal investigation is launched.  This story digs into the effects of rape and public shaming.

Asking For It made me think about these issues from multiple viewpoints.  I found the main character in the story unlikeable, which made me question a lot of things that happened in the story.  It was an interesting read.

A word of warning for those considering reading Asking For It: this is a disturbing book with mature situations/subject matter.

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