Ridley’s Reviews > True > Status Update

1. They don't throw white boys in jail for first-offense drug possession. 2. It takes a lot longer than a couple weeks for the legal process.

"he had a bicep tattoo that read TRUE Family in a tribal script." Oh man. Tribal tattoos. Never okay.

"I watched him yank the first drawer open and root around among my socks." Dude. Boundaries. This is not okay.

“So are you really a virgin?” he asked, sounding genuinely curious. “Or were you just saying that?” Who says this to an acquaintance at all, nevermind one you're driving home after your friend sexually assaulted her?

"So Grant did drugs. I guess I wasn’t surprised, not really. He had the requisite dysfunctional family, the nervous twitch." Because only poor and/or dysfunctional kids do drugs? Is this set in an alternate reality or something?

“You can’t walk through this neighborhood by yourself at night. This fucking hill alone would kill you if the ghetto rats didn’t.” http://www.jammiewf.com/assets/thats-...

"... I followed Tyler down the metal stairs, the smell of fried foods strong in the hallway..." She's already called the neighborhood the ghetto, why not refer to fried chicken as well? The 1st chapter ends here, though, so the watermelon reference will have to wait.

"I had long, dark-red hair, which made it easy for him to entwine his fingers to control my head and my neck, holding me so I couldn’t move." Who describes the color of their fucking hair when they tell their story of being sexually assaulted?

"Fear flooded my mouth." Your metaphor is bad, and you should feel bad.

Here we go. I hope it exceeds my expectations.