Wattpad does not disappoint with their books! I finished this book in a day and I’m not usually one of those people that can sit there and read a 300 page book that fast. I loved everything about this YA book. I think the debut author Natalie Walton did a phenomenal job on touching on the topics of revenge porn, cyber bullying, and the stigma that surrounds teenage girls vs. teenage boys in high school with sex. I highly recommend adding this to your tbr list for a summer read!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted to read this book because of the description, but after reading the book I felt it did not live up to the mystery. It centers around high school students dealing with the fallout of an email that they all received. Thus starts the Nudegate mystery or does it? It had a plot and the story seemed to progress, but it was slow. I wish there had been more clues the main character could have investigated to make it more suspenseful. This one kind of fell flat for me.

Thanks to NetGalley for the copy to review.

Due to the theme of this book, I really wanted to love it. And I really don’t know what it was about Eden that I couldn’t connect to but I just could not really feel her character. The message was strong though, slut shaming is wrong. There is nothing wrong with being sexually liberated and free and people who publicly shame those who express their sexuality freely should definitely have criminal consequences if they violate a persons privacy like in this book. I don’t understand why people can’t just let people be themselves. Why everyone has to be so judgmental all the time. Like I tell my preteen... get some business so you don’t have to mind everyone else’s.

This book was sent to me as an ARC on NetGalley. However all opinions are of my own.
I had really high hopes for this one after reading the synopsis which is what made me want to pick this up. I feel like the book could’ve had a lot more substance to it. I feel like most of it was information over monologue, which when reading a book like this I much prefer to be reading conversations. I did like the idea behind the book and I think it is important for people to read it and take away the fact that these things can generally happen in a school. However I feel that now as I am a little bit older I don’t think it was as relevant to me as what I thought it would’ve been

This was a story crafted around so many timely and important topics; consent, revenge porn, slut shaming, sexuality, double standards and standing up for what's right. All of this takes place in a high school setting which I think makes it even more relevant and youth are facing more adult topics and decisions and younger and younger ages. This isn't a topic that will be going away anytime soon and it's refreshing to see more books about it as it sparks much needed thoughts and conversations. While this wasn't a storyline that had me on the edge of my seat, it kept me intrigued. I wanted to know who was behind the actions, what made them do what they did and why. Natalie Walton wrote a relevant story that makes you stop and think about important topics, but being a fictional piece, it felt 'easier' (less heavy) to read then other books that cover the same, or similar topics.

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This was my first book by this author, It was pretty enjoyable. I would give this book a 3.5 star rating! It was a pretty Quick and easy read!

Amazing plot, dense mystery and baddass characters! The topics that are touched in this book are crucial for everyone, especially in today’s society. But the most important message? Be you, be confident and don’t let anyone put you down. You’re as every bit as awesome as you think, and more.

This is being published by Wattpad Books, and it shows. The writing was pretty amateurish and this is in desperate need of more editing. I will say that things picked up in the last 30% or so and I was totally hooked until the very last page. I also really liked the ending even though I had already figured out the plot twist on my own.

this book was spectacular. it was full of badass teens, it wasn't just the journey with the main character diving deep into the school papers and nude photos leaked. it was also the struggling thoughts of the 'sluts', and starting to realize the bigger picture. the content of this book is also extremely important, especially for a YA audience so of course 5 slutty stars!

I received an e-arc from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

From the get go, the title caught my attention. I love daring and explicit things like titles, and I have always loved the concept of women reclaiming words like slut and empowering themselves by doing so. So I loved seeing a story of a group of young women not only reclaiming the word slut but also fighting back and empowering themselves and other young women.

Not only did I love the concept, but this is also just such an important topic. Women are always being targeted and harmed and then somehow, the blame still falls back on us instead of the actual perpetrators. This story brings light to that and acknowledges it’s effects. This is something everyone should consider reading, regardless of gender because it’s something that needs to be brought attention to as a whole. This is a real issue all over the world.

There were many aspects to this book I really enjoyed. I appreciated the topic and the context given. I liked the way it showed the effects the victim bus,ing had. I appreciated seeing the story hold no punches when it came to showing the toxic masculinity, but it was also really nice to see someone like Atticus. It was such a nice and stark contrast to the toxic males. I appreciated seeing a male character acknowledging that spreading the photos were wrong and to see him standing up for his female friends and their choices. I have always wanted to see more men stand up to the harmful behavior they see other men engaging in like Atticus did. And I of course loved seeing girls/young women supporting each other. I appreciated that when almost everyone else tried to tear them down, they banded together and held each other up. I appreciated even more that they didn’t just take it laying down, but that they fought back. And I loved that they named themselves the Slut Squad. A word can only do as much as as you let it, and by not only reclaiming a word but naming their group it, is a mighty powerful Fuck off power play. It’s really something to look up to.

I truly did enjoy this book, and I’m so grateful I got the chance to read and review it. Although, I do feel like the ending began leading into other problematic areas that never got the chance to be fully addressed or resolved. It could’ve been another important lesson. Either way, I do hope many more people read this book and recognize our society in it.

Revenge of the Sluts begins with an email sent to the entire student body at St Joseph's High School: nude photos of seven girls in the graduating class, with a promise from the sender, the self-named Eros, that this email was only the beginning. School reporter Eden Jeong and her editor-in-chief Ronnie Greer decide to cover what students have begun to call 'Nudegate' in the school newspaper, and give the girls in the photos a chance to have their stories told. Except all the school administration wants to do is forget about the incident, and local laws say that unless any of the girls are under 18, having their nudes circulated against their will is not technically a crime. Cue the 'Slut Squad', the group formed by the girls in the photos to support each other and fight for justice even if the laws and their school won't support them.

Despite the fraught subject matter and the slut-shaming the girls in the photos are subjected to, even from their own families, ultimately, I found Revenge of the Sluts to be a satisfying, sex-positive, feel-good novel. Revenge porn / Non-consensual pornography is a terrible crime that's sadly become more common and easier to perpetrate with so much of our lives going digital. While this novel is fiction, I have no doubt that what Sloane, Alice, Claire, and the other members of the Slut Squad went through happens in real life high schools. And as horrified as I am by the book's revelation that, in some states, this kind of act is technically legal unless the victim is a minor, I have no doubt that that's true as well.

The author doesn't shy away from the terrible effects the email had on these girls and their classmates (Eden learns about group chats among the boys in her school where nude photos of girl classmates are regularly exchanged, and she worries about nudes she'd sent her ex-boyfriend when they were still together). However, rather than focusing on the girls' victimhood, the story highlights the girls' heroism in fighting back, and the strength the girls find in banding together.

I loved Sloane and the Slut Squad, and the care the author took in showing the range of reactions among the girls, and the helpful therapist who offered resources for anyone who wanted to talk. I did cringe when one of the girls invited Eden to the first Slut Squad meeting, which I understand was necessary for the plot, but it still felt like a violation of the safe space Sloane had set up. Some of the Squad's activities also felt a bit too rah rah -- for example, I'm surprised Claire was okay with a particular gathering of the Squad that impacted something she worked hard on. I also wish we'd gotten more insight into how the girls' families and loved ones responded to their activism, which, given the principal's desperation to sweep things under the rug, I presume posed material risks to the girls' graduation and college admission. But ultimately, the thought of these girls rising up together and reclaiming their stories felt too good to begrudge, and I was happy the Squad fought strong.

I also loved the insight into investigative journalism at a high school level. We see Eden and Ronnie deal with school bureaucracy, conscientious journalism practices, and the excitement of knowing you're sharing important stories that need to be told. I also love that both Eden and Ronnie are BIPOC, and that this shared experience partly shapes their friendship. Ronnie is one of only four Black students at the school, and when she assigns the Nudegate story to Eden instead of writing it herself, because other students are turned off by her political activism, it's easy to imagine that her Blackness played a role in her classmates' discomfort as well. Eden is first-generation Korean-American, and I love the little details that show how her family stay connected to their Korean heritage. Even when it's something as simple as her father cooking Korean food or her mother watching K-dramas with Eden, the author shows us how Eden actively uses these touchpoints to connect to her Koreanness.

The ending fell a bit flat for me, only because I was disappointed with the reveal of who Eros actually was. The perpetrator and their motivations seemed to counter, for me at least, the messages of strength and solidarity that I loved in so much of the story. The story's strength, for me, was seeing how these girls from disparate social groups, and some of the guys in their social circles banded together and supported each other. I thought the story's trajectory was hopeful in a fist-pumping, tear-down-unjust-systems kind of way, and while I admit Eros' identity did make sense, I also felt like the reveal detracted from that hope a little bit. 

Still, I found it an engaging book overall, and I love how some of the characters really came through for each other to fight the system and ensure that justice is done.

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Thank you to Raincoast Books for an egalley of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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For fans of Moxie, The Nowhere Girls and Dress Coded.
Easily 5 stars. This is my favorite kind of story, and it helps that it doesn't follow the traditional plot structure of most YA books. There's no breakup or argument between best friends, no "it all goes to shit" moment-- the main conflict happens in the beginning and the rest of the book is about the girls' standing up for themselves.
I was also surprised to learn that revenge porn isn't illegal in Massachussetts. Since none of the girls in the book who had their pictures shared were under 18, the main character didn't think it would be possible to have a criminal investigation. And the school is more worried about protecting its reputation than actually helping the girls.
I liked how Eden's parents were entirely supportive of her journalism work and her efforts to help the school, as too many YA books show parents as antagonists. And even some of the girls' parents were good too.

This is the third published book from Wattpad I've read so far, and I highly recommend it.

If we truly live in a society which has progressed then why does there still seem to be a gap between what it is ok for a boy versus a girl to do/not do?

This book fully delivers and answers this question: it ISN'T ok for there to exist double standards about gender based upon a person's identity as male or female. Talk about a timely book, both hard hitting and funny, anybody would be able to pick this book up and enjoy it! Eden, as lead reporter for the school newspaper decides to use her role to the advantage of aiding fellow female students at St. Joseph's High School from being misunderstood and framed in a certain adverse light.

Thankyou WattpadBooks for providing me with a physical copy of this book.

Really enjoyed this story!

I am so glad I finally sat down to read this. A neccesary book about revenge porn that kept me turning the pages to find out what happens.
I loved the investigative journalism take this book gives, and I really look forward to reading more from this author!

I went into this book not expecting to love it as much as i did. I was pleasantly surprised with how fast i flew through this book. The story is not only an entertaining one, but i believe it's an important one. We follow main character Eden who is editor of the school newspaper. Eden thrives to share important stories and give a voice to those who are often silenced. After an incident where an email containing nude pictures of different girls in the school is sent by an anonymous sender calling themselves "Eros", Eden is determined to cover the story, support the girls who have been victim of this crime and to uncover the identity of Eros. The story is a frustrating one because we see how little the victims of such acts are protected and given support by those who should be there to protect these students (parents, school teachers/principal, polices, etc) but it reflects in reality which is an important conversation to have.

Pros;
opens the conversation on sexuality, protecting victims o revenge porn, etc
POC main character (Eden is Asian, her friend on the newspaper is Black)
LGBTQ+ characters (Eden's friend is gay)

Cons;
the ending wrapped up too fast in my opinion
no consequences were discussed in depth

When nude pictures of several students at school are sent out to the entire student body. Eden goes on a mission to tell the girl's stories and find out who sent the photos. This book shows how quickly a personal photo can make the rounds and how often schools will sweep conflict under the rug in order to protect their own reputation. I wanted to like this book, but unfortunately, it was a miss for me. The story did not move forward as quickly as I had hoped and it just seemed to fall flat. I did not find myself wanting to pick this book up to finish it.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book.

This was a really important book with a even more important message and should be one of those books you read in High School. I have to say I'm positively surprised after reading "Revenge of the Sluts" and how the author treated the whole slut topic. Nowadays especially victim shaming is a huge problem and so is slut and victim shaming at the same time. Therefore "Revenge of the Sluts", a book that deals with this victim shaming, a issue everyone is aware of ("The girl just shouldn't have sent those pics or wear such a short skirt! It's her fault!) is a very important lecture, with a hard but realistic issue, society has to learn and cope with.
It would just be right if everyone, girls and boys and everything in between, read this book and learned more about the term slut and why it even exists and why we blame girls for being "slutty".
Really important book (as I now said hundreds of times) and really, really, really important message because things got to change. Because there is no such thing as a slut.

I read this when it was published on wattpad and I still love it right now!! I love the theme of sexism, revenge porn, and the relevance of how the modern age of technology allows no one privacy. This was a YA mystery, which victim shaming and interesting female characters.

It took me quite a bit of time to read this book. I usually read multiple books at once and didn't find myself reaching for this one as much as I hoped. When a group high school girls' nude photos are sent to the entire student population at St. Joes, a wealthy private high school, Eden (a high school journalist) springs into action and covers the story in the school's student run newspaper. Unfortunately, the administration isn't a fan of the coverage and doesn't want the story reaching past school walls. The book is all about the girls' experiences, the mystery behind finding out who leaked the photos, and the journalism struggles the newspaper has. I feel like those three topics were simply touched upon, rather than really explored. I would have liked the focus of the novel to be on either one of those main topics as I think it would have engaged me into the story more than it did. The topic of teenage sexuality is also discussed in the novel and Sloane's character was very open about her sexuality and how she feels about her photos being leaked. I found it insane that since the girls were 18, no legal action could be taken. I think it opens up the discussion in schools as to what policies should be in place to protect students from revenge porn and the leaking of photos. I think this story had the potential to be great but it fell short for me.