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Trigger Warning: This book deals with rape.
Firsts is the debut novel by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn and it deals very heavily with sex. Our main character Mercedes offers a "service" to take boys virginities in order for them to give their girlfriends a good first time which she didn't have. Her best friend's boyfriend ends up finding out about her and asks for it and eventually it gets leaked to the school.
These characters are stereotypes basically. They don't have much dimension to them and with Mercedes you lose some of her character from time to time because it changes. One minute she knows exactly what a boy wants just by looking at him and the next she's left confused and feeling complicated from the boy. She's very selfish with what she's doing with them because she starts doing it for her own benefit. Faye was the mysterious new girl who had absolutely no reason to even be in the book but she was there. Zach was the dream boy who stood by Mercedes through it all and then she found out she has been in love with him since they were mere children. Angela was the oblivious best friend who believed everything she was told. They were boring characters.
Throughout the book there's a lot of sexual innuendoes. It got to the point that I was very annoyed with how many there were. This wasn't the heartbreaking book that it said it was. This was a sexual, slut shaming, not going to fully address the main problems with the characters book. It was not well written and I didn't enjoy this book at all.
1/5 Stars
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