{"id":560,"date":"2016-02-15T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2016-02-03T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:21:42","slug":"review-firsts-by-laurie-elizabeth-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/review-firsts-by-laurie-elizabeth-flynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23480844-firsts\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1434053866m\/23480844.jpg\" rel=\"colorbox\" class=\"colorbox\" alt=\"Firsts\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23480844-firsts\">Firsts<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/9816754.Laurie_Elizabeth_Flynn\">Laurie Elizabeth Flynn<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1130923273\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I could make every high school boy in the world read this book, I would. They could learn a lot about how to treat a girl!<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Elizabeth Flynn created something so special with Mercedes&#8217; story. She was a character I both loved and loved to cringe for&#8211;a girl with incredible strength who was dealing with confusion and mixed signals and at times, really bad boys. Even dangerous boys!<\/p>\n<p>And Zach! I completely fell in love with this character. He was a guy in every sense of the word, yet he truly cared for Mercedes and had a good heart. I think that&#8217;s important to show in YA literature: yes, sex is awesome, but you can be sexual and be a good person\/boyfriend\/girlfriend at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Ugh, now let me talk about the slut shaming! I felt so terrible for Mercedes and the mean way her classmates treated her. On one hand, she &#8220;deserved&#8221; it&#8211;she knowingly slept with other girls&#8217; boyfriends!&#8211;but the way they treated her rather than ditching the assholes they were dating really rang true. This is so common among girls and women, and so, so heartbreaking. I hope this book opens the door for a lot of discussion among girls on shaming one another.<\/p>\n<p>I am so excited to see what Flynn comes up with for her next book. Loved this book! A million stars!<\/p>\n<p>I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/5285139-melissa-gorzelanczyk\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn My rating: 5 of 5 stars If I could make every high school boy in the world read this book, I would. They could learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-read-p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/review-firsts-by-laurie-elizabeth-flynn\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}