Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin
Published: February 4, 2020Publisher: Wednesday BooksPages: 336Received: from publisher via NetGalley for honest reviewFind online: Goodreads | Wednesday BooksHannah Capin's Foul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes.
Jade and her friends Jenny, Mads, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Jade's sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew’s Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Jade as their next target.
They picked the wrong girl.
Sworn to vengeance, Jade transfers to St. Andrew’s Prep. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one. She'll take their power, their lives, and their control of the prep school's hierarchy. And she and her coven have the perfect way in: a boy named Mack, whose ambition could turn deadly.
Before I write my thoughts, I wanted to touch on the trigger and content warnings that include
sexual assault, rape, rape culture, gender-based violence, abusive
relationship, physical violence, gore, murder, bullying, transphobia,
suicide, underage drinking, drug use, vigilantism, revenge. If you click the link you will be taken to Hannah's website where she writes out detailed content warnings with detail (however, it may contain spoilers for the book). Regardless of these warnings, this book is well written and shows how we need to deal with rape, rape culture and bulling so that these types of situations do not keep happening to anyone.
First thoughts that hit me with a gut punch was how this was a hopped up version of Sadie by Courtney Summers, for the revenge plot story line, mixed with a side of Dexter by Jeff Lindsay or something of similar feel, for how easily Jade transitions from being a sweet sixteen girl to a remorseless queen of murderous vengeance. IT'S PERFECT!
First thoughts that hit me with a gut punch was how this was a hopped up version of Sadie by Courtney Summers, for the revenge plot story line, mixed with a side of Dexter by Jeff Lindsay or something of similar feel, for how easily Jade transitions from being a sweet sixteen girl to a remorseless queen of murderous vengeance. IT'S PERFECT!
The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking this is out of control and so insane, but so very understood. I'm sure Elle/Jade is not the first girl to want a boy dead for the terrible things they've done, but this time she and her friends actually act on it. Completely plotted out, researched and refined down to every detail, they begin their plan to take down each golden boy that was involved that night at the party.
They think they have the perfect plan and the perfect scapegoat, but emotions start to cloud judgement and things spiral out of Jade's control. Only with the help of her true friends can she grab the reigns and attempt to finish the job they started - taking down the prep school's hierarchy - one by one!
This was a fast paced read and had me flipping pages faster than I have in a long time. The story is so compelling and I just had to know what was happening next or who would be next. I didn't realize how dark this story was going to get, but I absolutely enjoyed it. I had a few thoughts on how I thought things would play out, but I was totally wrong AND there was a little surprise that I hadn't realized was coming.
Jade's character is such a psychopath. I did not realize how much she could pull off. She was so manipulative. Perhaps it's the combination of her coven or just herself as their leader, but I definitely would not want to cross these girls. I would have loved to see a lot more about her fellow coven members, but I understand that this story was about Jade and what happened to her. I think Mads is the character that I'd most like to read more about and learn her story.
If after reading the trigger and content warnings, you feel that you wouldn't be bothered by the situations, I strongly suggest you give this book a try. Fantastic narrative on such an important topic that is always in the media of late given the "me too" movement.
Blurb:
"Capin’s writing will seduce you with its beauty and then, when you least suspect it, slice you to the bone—just like Foul is Fair’s captivating, vicious, entirely unforgettable heroine, Jade." - Layne Fargo, author of Temper and co-host of Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast
If after reading the trigger and content warnings, you feel that you wouldn't be bothered by the situations, I strongly suggest you give this book a try. Fantastic narrative on such an important topic that is always in the media of late given the "me too" movement.
Blurb:
"Capin’s writing will seduce you with its beauty and then, when you least suspect it, slice you to the bone—just like Foul is Fair’s captivating, vicious, entirely unforgettable heroine, Jade." - Layne Fargo, author of Temper and co-host of Unlikeable Female Characters Podcast
About the author: Hannah Capin is the author of Foul is Fair and The Dead Queens Club, a feminist retelling of the wives of Henry VIII. When she isn’t writing, she can be found singing, sailing, or pulling marathon gossip sessions with her girl squad. She lives in Tidewater, Virginia.
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