This book was vile, disgusting, and incredibly difficult to get through. 
 But it's one that I feel should be essential for everyone to read. 
 What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler is roughly based on the true story of a high school girl (in this story, her name is Stacey) brutally raped at a house party in a small town, and the horrific way the media and the residents portrayed/viewed the rape. It did an excellent job at weaving both a narrative about the main character, Kate, and the rape of Stacey. 
 Of course, the actual scene in the novel where Stacey is assaulted was horrifically hard to read: at the end, I was sobbing and on the verge of throwing up. 
 In my opinion, Hartlzer has crafted an amazing piece of YA feminist literature. The contents of this novel are vile, yes, but so important. YA is obviously a genre that is geared towards teens, and I really hope more people in that age bracket pick What We Saw up: because if more young readers (hell, if EVERYONE) began to educate themselves on rape culture/victim blaming/feminism, perhaps our society could change for the better.