Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu

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Title: Moxie
Author: Jennifer Mathieu
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 352
Date read: October, 2022

MOXIE GIRLS FIGHT BACK!

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an administration at her 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.


The book the movie is "inspired" by... which is a very odd way to put it as it's blatantly the same story (so what's the difference between inspired by and based on??? But I digress). I loved the movie, and I loved the book as well. Very captivating read. I liked that it showed that things weren't necessarily black and white, that nuances exist, and that there's room for growth.

The end frustrated me a bit as certain someones got off far too easily IMHO, but I guess that just makes it more realistic - unfortunately.