Cancelled - Kirjakasa

5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 368 pages

Published March 19, 2024 by Viking Books (Penguin Random House).

ISBN:: 978-0-593-52830-3
Goodreads:: 179548517

(1 review)

Not to brag, but Brynn Whittaker is basically killing her senior year. She’s got the looks, the grades, and a thriving “flirt coach” business that will help pay for her ultimate dream school: Stanford University.

But when a highly incriminating video goes viral after the first rager of the year, Brynn finds herself at the center of a school-wide scandal of catastrophic proportions. She knows she’s not the girl in the video hooking up with her former best friend’s boyfriend (While wearing a banana costume, no less. Hey, points for style), but adding that to her reputation of being a serial dater, she quickly starts losing friends and customers. On top of that, the scorn she receives exposes the culture of misogyny that is rampant at her school . . . and Brynn and her three best friends are determined to take down all the haters.

But as she gets …

Not to brag, but Brynn Whittaker is basically killing her senior year. She’s got the looks, the grades, and a thriving “flirt coach” business that will help pay for her ultimate dream school: Stanford University.

But when a highly incriminating video goes viral after the first rager of the year, Brynn finds herself at the center of a school-wide scandal of catastrophic proportions. She knows she’s not the girl in the video hooking up with her former best friend’s boyfriend (While wearing a banana costume, no less. Hey, points for style), but adding that to her reputation of being a serial dater, she quickly starts losing friends and customers. On top of that, the scorn she receives exposes the culture of misogyny that is rampant at her school . . . and Brynn and her three best friends are determined to take down all the haters.

But as she gets closer to identifying the person in the video that got her cancelled, Brynn must decide—is exposing the girl worth losing everything she’s worked so hard for?

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Enum & Valerie reviewed Cancelled by Farrah Penn

Spannend und relevant

4 stars

Kurz mal nicht aufgepasst, immer ins patriarchale Bild zu passen? Zack, gecancellt und mit großer misogyner Scheiße konfrontiert. Ich liebe es, wie Brynn und ihre Freund*innen es dagegen schaffen, den Wind zu drehen, aufzuarbeiten was da abgeht, ein Klima feministischer Befreiung zu schaffen, und schließlich auch Flachwichsern aufs Maul zu geben.

Einziges Manko ist, dass es mir manchmal nicht weit genug geht mit der Reflektion der gesellschaftlichen Normen (auch bis zum Ende wird der Blowjob immer noch als Unrecht dargestellt? L. übernimmt keine Verantwortung für ihr ganzes Austeilen und Macker supporten? Meanwhile ist's so schwer K. zu vergeben, obwohl die sich wenigstens Mühe gibt?)