Don't Go Home with John

I thought that everyone's reaction to Lila's story was particularly truthful. Especially since some of her closest friends refused to believe that it really happened. It seems such a shame that Lila had to get another girl as evidence. I mean, if these so-called friends of hers had believed her in the first place, then she wouldn't have had to suffer. I definitely recommend this book to others. It also questions the notion of friendship as well as date rape.

For once, there is something wrong with rich, popular Lila Fowler. I think that more people should have had more faith in Lila, and not gone against her. It had a lot of suspence, and irony. You don't expect this to happen to Lila, maybe one of the other characters, but not Lila. This book is a little different than the othes, and its a nice change.

One of a rush of SVH books dealing with adolescent issues. Snobbish flirt Lila's romance with wholesome John turns nasty when he tries to force himself on her. Shattered, Lila falls into deep depression, made far worse when she finds the courage to speak up about the attack, only to find her peers turn against her. The lightweight series deals surprisingly well with the difficult issue of date rape, depicting it in ways that should move and affect its audience of young girls without distressing them too much. The surprising choice of having manipulative bad-girl Lila attacked by long-time "good guy" John, hero of a volume or two of SVH himself, works very well.

This book was very well written. Lila goes out on a date with John a sports editor for the school paper, everybody thought he was a nice, shy, quiet guy. But they were wrong. He tries to attack Lila at Miller;s Point. For awhile, she does not say anything, but she finally does. And nobody believes her, they say with her reputation, why should they. In the end , she finds another girl he did this to and everybody finally believes her. I think this teaches girls that it doesn't matter what kind of guy people think they are, they may always be someone different, someone you wouldn't want to know.

I thought that this book was incredible. It shows that something like sexual abuse is real, and that we shouldn't feel embarrassed to talk about it.