I didn't read the book, so went in cold Oh my, so many things wrong here. The characters, all them were more like charicatures of personality types. As in, this is what a victim looks like and how a victim behaves, this is what a rapist looks like and how a rapist behaves, this is a generic overbearing mother, this is a rich pretty boy/Man...and so on. Mmm, that is not how any of this works. Nothing is that cut and dry. Apparently Mila Kunis said in some interview that we all have this messy stuff in our pasts. It's true, I do , friends do and it's frustrating that when our traumas happenened, victim shaming was the norm. That wasn't right. But what is happening now is also not right. Being victimized does not give anyone permission to be rotten, to be mean and gross and vile and to use people. Did anyone even notice that the school shooter was the original victim? Being raped is horrifying, that I can attest to. I've never been held down while someone took a dump on my chest. I can only imagine how traumatic that would be. Does that warrant a school shooting....nope. But what would have happened had the shooting not happened, would Tiffani had just kept covering for her rapists? Had the Dean guy not implicated her in the shooting would it have ever come out at all? The truth is, no matter how many times stories like this are told, the rich kids will get away with their depravity because money talks. And Tiffany used this not to empower anyone but herself by tearing down the people closest to her. She is unsympathetic. She suffers all this trauma and her victory lap is to be a well dressed, obnoxiously rude, inconsiderate turd that people move out of the way to avoid. She's not important, she's just very visibly vile. This is not her winning, it's her passing her victimization on to everyone else. By the end she is not a victim or a survivor. She's just a bully. And while feminists are taking a victory lap with all this bull crap posturing of strength, the Hunter Biden's of this world are still getting away with it.