![]() ![]() Izzy believes she happily owns her sexuality and is humiliated when graphic photos emerge on an online blog entitled Izzy O’Neill: World Class Whore. ‘I know you’re probably reading this thinking, oh my god, what an unbelievable whore, even though you generally consider yourself to be fairly progressive.’ ![]() Over the course of a boozy and flirtatious evening, Izzy has sex with two guys, one of whom is the son of a prominent politician. Smart and strong-willed, she wisecracks her way through the usual trials of high school, until events at a teenage party turn her into the unwilling star of a cruel drama. When photos emerge of Izzy, a senator’s son and a frisky episode on a garden bench, she is propelled into a scandal of epic proportions, one in which she is hounded by a society that simultaneously objectifies and shames sexually active young women.Ī blistering read, it’ll enthrall the teenage girl in your life. ![]() So how does it feel to be ‘eighteen and internationally reviled,’ the prime casualty of a slut-shaming scandal? Izzy O’Neill tells us straight in this sparky YA debut by Laura Steven. ![]()
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