The Luis Ortega Survival Club, Sonora Reyes 
Book
Contemporary
Young Adult
Book
Contemporary
Young Adult
Updated: 16 February 2025
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned in passing (in discussion and/or implied)
Sexual harassment (e.g. verbal or non-consensual touching/grabbing)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sexual abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape strongly implied/details surrounding a rape discussed in detail (i.e. the events before/after)
Detailed/vivid description of rape

Description

The book's synopsis and author's note emphasize that sexual assault is the main topic of this book. In its appendices, this book includes websites and phone numbers for survivors of sexual assault. The author's note reads: "This book deals with issues of bullying, slut-shaming, sexual harassment, rape culture, and the aftermath of an off-page rape. I've done my best to depict these topics with care and sensitivity. If these are difficult subjects for you, please look after yourself, and know that your mental emotional well-being come first." The story opens with the protagonist distraught, leaving a party where she was just raped. Because she's autistic, it takes a while for her to put together that what happened to her was rape. We find out later that the rapist specifically targeted her because she is neurodivergent and selectively mute. The rapist spreads the news that he had sex with the protagonist at this party. The protagonist then begins receiving unwanted social media messages, verbal comments, and touching from boys who think she'll have sex with anyone. The protagonist joins with a group of other people who have been harmed by the rapist's behavior, and throughout the book, they collect stories of his victims. Later, the protagonist learns that her mother was sexually assaulted at a job. After her mother admits this, she makes a safe space for the protagonist to admit that she was raped as well. Before the events of the book, a character tried to intervene when the rapist drugged a girl to rape her. This character ended up blamed for the drugging and incarcerated for two years as a result. In the end, the protagonist and her friends succeed in exposing the rapist. The protagonist records him threatening to use his dad's social power as a judge to get her put in jail instead of him. With all the gathered evidence, he ends up being convicted as a sex offender and cut off from his family's finances and prestige.

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