Heretics Anonymous

I appreciate this book, but have to confess I didn't enjoy it all too much. I liked the premise of the book, and yet I rarely felt engaged. I, predictably, liked the portions that reminded me of books like [b:Moxie 33163378 Moxie Jennifer Mathieu https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1494950979s/33163378.jpg 46824140] and [b:The Nowhere Girls 28096541 The Nowhere Girls Amy Reed https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1507458184s/28096541.jpg 48100738] – where students start underground movements to create change in their schools, and face the danger of discovery. However, I came away feeling like the author felt the best response to injustice was a strongly worded petition. This could be a misread, but the group's efforts seemed to be portrayed as too radical based on a chance that the wrong person might be blamed through circumstantial evidence for an underground paper and some graffiti. I guess I just don't want to see a book targeted to younger readers that encourages them to follow the rules and only work within a broken system, and that's what this felt like – point out injustices up until their might be repercussions. The relationships, other than the romantic relationship, could have used more attention, making the portrayals a bit superficial. Of course, this is just me, others might enjoy HA more, and get more out of it, but this book had a lot of hype behind it which, upon reading, I'm not sure it earned.