Kat Kennedy's Reviews > Easy

So some­body told me this book was like Beau­ti­ful Dis­as­ter but not com­pletely hor­ri­ble, woman hat­ing and non­sen­si­cal. I snorted, thanked them for the rec and went on my merry way.

So let me express this in the most calm and rea­son­able way I can. Easy by Tamara Web­ber is fan­tas­tic and won­der­ful and that per­son was 100% right.

I have to admit, the book and I didn’t get off to a great start. It begins with Jacque­line at col­lege, bummed from get­ting dumped by her longterm boyfriend, almost get­ting raped before Lucas res­cues her. So, for some­one who is adamantly against rape being used and glossed over just to fur­ther a plot or have the hero seem heroic, I was decid­edly unimpressed.

But it soon becomes clear that Web­ber has taken the topic of rape extremely seri­ously. In fact, by the end of the novel I was cheer­ing and punch­ing the air because this book was the best I’ve ever read an author han­dle the sub­ject for con­tem­po­rary readers.



Nor­mally, in books where the female MC is almost raped and saved by the hero, the rapist gets beaten up and left behind and the hero­ine goes on her merry way. And some­times the rapist harasses her and the author cov­ers the trauma for the hero­ine until the rapist is killed by the hero in the final bat­tle and those two get to run off into the sunset.

What a freakin’ relief that Web­ber takes it really damn seri­ously – even though the begin­ning of the novel would lead you to believe that she wouldn’t. There was a point near the end of the novel where Jacque­line has to talk to a bunch of soror­ity girls about rape and I wanted to cry and cheer and do a lit­tle girl power dance.



So I loved Jacque­line, I loved Lucas, I loved most of this book. I thought it was well writ­ten and rea­son­ably well-paced and you know what? Seemed like it was actu­ally writ­ten about col­lege kids who actu­ally do col­lege things. I’m really glad I picked this one up. It was, indeed, a really fun, lovely read that I highly endorse. Also, Jacqueline’s slap down on Kennedy was epic – right to the end. She kicked seri­ous butt.