The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes

What follows is an incredibly powerful and empowering story of a group of survivors taking back agency and control, and forming close friendships along the way.Īriana is a main character you will adore from the first page.

Soon after though, she comes into contact with an account named TLOSC, The Luis Ortega Survival Club, who tells her she's not alone, and they might be able to figure out a way to get revenge. She knows she didn't say yes, but she also didn't say no, so she felt like it was, at least in part, her own fault. When Ariana gets raped at a party, she doesn't realize it was rape at first. I received an ARC from Harper Collins Children’s Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. When I finished Tonight We Rule the World, I said that book belonged in every school library in the world and needed to be discussed in every classroom, and the same applies to The Luis Ortega Survival Club.

To get back at Luis, who felt like he had a free pass to assault girls sexually. At the same time, I rooted for Ari and her friends so much. I read the story with a constant ache in my chest, and anger bubbled up from my belly multiple times. Both stories have an autistic and bisexual main character and a similar theme. The book is comparable to Tonight We Rule the World. The Luis Ortega Survival Club is a powerful story about consent and figuring out your sexuality. What does it mean when you didn’t say no, but definitely didn’t say yes either? The first page immediately pulls you in and makes breathing difficult. Sometimes stories are about incredibly important topics, and The Luis Ortega Survival Club is such a story.

The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes