Review: The Trial - Laura Bates

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The Trial

Review: The Trial - Laura Bates - September 2021

I am so loving the Libby Library App as I am getting to read some amazing library books. This YA read captured my attention as I love survival stories that include deserted islands. In this book The Trial by Laura Bates, a private plane carrying football players and cheerleaders and their coaches are on their way to a tournament when turbulence strikes and the plane ends up crashing on a desert island. Only a few of them end up surviving and the rest are dead. On the island survived is Football players - Brian, Jason, and Elliott and Cheerleaders - Shannon, Hayley, Jessa, and May. Can the survivors work together to survive the environment until they are rescued or when strange things start happening that threaten their survival, is someone on the island trying to kill them off one by one? Hayley who is the outsider and only joined the cheerleader team to pad up her college application knows something happened at the party the night before they crashed and with the accidents happening - she just knows it is connected. When Brian almost dies and everyone starts to turn on each other, Hayley decides the only way to settle things is to hold a trial and hear an account of everybody's stories about what happened at the party. During this latter part of the book when the trial happens, the book turns more from a YA survival story to a #MeToo tale as it turns out one of them was sexually assaulted at the party. The latter part of this story focuses on women being assaulted by athletes etc and not being able, to tell the truth, as the elites tend to be the ones believed rather than the females, or the guilty parties are not punished adequately for the crime like The Brock Turner case. The author of this book is also famous for her views on Feminism and Female Empowerment.

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