Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texan high school in the new novel from Jennifer Matheiu, author of The Truth About Alice.

MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK!

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with a school administration at her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.

Viv's mom was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.

Moxie is a book about high school life that will make you wanna riot!@goodreads 

This book was totally amazing! I was in tears near the end with all of the girls standing up together. They were there for each other, girls from all walks of life to stand up against those that try to make them something they are not, for trying to push them into corners to go along with things that shouldn't be. This book is all powerful in its own way.

Viv is a girl that goes to high school like your normal teen. She lives with her mom, her dad died when she was young, her grandparents live next door, she has friends, life is pretty okay. Not so much at school. The school is run by the star football players and they get away with everything. Mitchell Wilson is the leader of the pack and his father is the Principle of the school, so he gets away with even more. The football team gets all the money while other parts of the school are in the dark ages.

But one day, Viv has had enough. When a new girl named Lucy is trying to answer a question in class and Mitchell makes a comment that sends Viv on a quest to end this crap.

Viv gets the idea to start a zine called Moxie from reading through her moms old stuff in a box. Her mom was pretty hard core when she was younger.

Viv designs pages and makes copies of them and puts them in the girls bathrooms. There are some cool pictures in the book but I won't share them until I get my physical copy when it comes out in case something changes.

Moxie slowly starts a revolution. A revolution of girls to not be shamed, or groped, or raped, or pushed to the side. This movement causes girls that would have never talked to each other to be friends and to stick up for one another. They even do bake sales and stuff so the girls soccer team can have new uniforms. It's so freaking uplifting that all I can say is read the book and find out for yourselves.

The idea of girls coming together as friends and not being jealous or petty is fantastic!

And in this small town having a movement like this and going against the higher ups in the school is something everyone should do if they are living in a corrupt area. A principle pushing attempted rape and other things aside like they are nothing is not something that needs to let go by the wayside.

The book made me feel good inside. And the author left some websites for people to look at for different groups. I love it!

There is also a love interest for Viv in the book. His name is Seth and even though some don't think this should be a book for romance I have to disagree. I loved Seth and I think the placement of a hot high school guy that doesn't think like the jerks was a great thing. It didn't take away from the book, it was just there along with the other norms of life.

Mel ♥

*Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book.*

GOODREADS REVIEW:

 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2112610232