Rites of Passage
Author: Joy N. Hensley
Publication Date: September 9th 2014
Publisher: Harper Teen
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Sam McKenna’s never turned down a dare. And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died.
So Sam joins the first-ever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. She’s expecting push-ups and long runs, rope climbing and mud-crawling. As a military brat, she can handle an obstacle course just as well as the boys. She's even expecting the hostility she gets from some of the cadets who don’t think girls belong there. What she’s not expecting is her fiery attraction to her drill sergeant. But dating is strictly forbidden and Sam won't risk her future, or the dare, on something so petty...no matter how much she wants him.
As Sam struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys don’t just want her gone—they will stop at nothing to drive her out. When their petty threats turn to brutal hazing, bleeding into every corner of her life, she realizes they are not acting alone. A decades-old secret society is alive and active… and determined to force her out.
At any cost.
Now time's running short. Sam must decide who she can trust...and choosing the wrong person could have deadly consequences
Rites of Passage is one of those rare books I probably would
never have picked up, and the only reason why I did in the first place was
because of the Dare behind it all. This is also one of those times I'd let
someone slap me for being so stupid. This is probably going to be a rambling
review because that's just how it goes with ones you love, you can never sit
down and focus enough to write something that says just exactly what Rites of
Passage means and is, because there's just so many things about it that I loved
and right now, sentences are popping into my head and then leave.
