We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian takes place in twenty-four hours leading up to the first scrimmage of the year for the girls' field hockey team. During a night of pranks the team will become closer than ever and learn some unsettling things about their coach. Traditionally the captain hosts a sleepover for the team for a night of bonding. In the past all the night's events would be at the captain's house. There would be a catered meal, a speech, a movie, and lights out by ten. But not this year. http://pussreboots.com/blog/2020/comm...

this book is not what i expected and NOT what is marketed as at all. “deeply suspenseful” L M A OO no maam. Coach made me genuinely infuriated and sick to my stomach!!! i felt like i didn’t get much out of this book. the last 30 pages were good tho!!! idk i guess i couldn’t overlook my disappointment for this not being what i thought it was. also there was way too many girls / too many “points of view” (3rd person but u know) to keep track off , they all ran together to me.

Trigger warnings: (view spoiler)[grooming, adult-child relationship, gaslighting & manipulation (central theme), bullying, physical injury (hide spoiler)] This was a good read! I will state from the top, the book was a tad predictable and I wasn't the biggest fan of how reliant the book was on flashbacks. But there was such a great feel that We Are the Wildcats embodies in its readers. There is an important message woven throughout the story, make sure you check out the trigger warnings before diving in. But tying the whole thing together is a gorgeous sense of female empowerment, the complexities of female friendship and having one another's back no matter how messy things may seem. Highly recommended to any young female readers. blog • trigger warning database • more links Happy reading! ❤