The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum follows three main characters Q who at the end of last year was sexually assaulted by one of her fellow students, Max who is a scholarship student who was struggling at school until he gets offered a place on the school rowing chain and automatically boosted to the top of the school food chain and Charlotte who is a star student who believes in the school and what they have to offer. These three characters discover many of the school's secrets and what is actually going on behind closed doors, and in turn have to work out how they feel about it and what the right thing to do is.
This book is set in an elite American boarding school and tackles some of the issues that are involved in that boarding school, its views on girls and the behaviour of boys. This book is for a YA audience but I would definitely say it’s for a more mature YA audience due to many of the trigger warnings involved that I would recommend looking into and that it’s also a book that could easily be enjoyed and understood possibly more than can be by a YA audience by an older audience.
The thing that first intrigued me about this book was the line on the bottom of the cover which instead of saying boys will be boys says boys will be held accountable, which obviously is the sort of thing that will catch your eye and I wanted to know what was meant by it. It also does portray the book really well and what this book is tackling.
There are three perspectives followed in this book, one from each of the main characters which meant that you really got to understand the characters and how they felt about what was going on along with what was truly going on in the school. I think that this worked really well for the book and what the book wanted to achieve in the best way possible.
The characters were all very well developed and even though I haven’t been through the same thing as all these characters I could really understand them and why they made the decisions they did Q especially. I really agreed with many of the decisions Charlotte made and I was glad she decided the way she did, I understood Q and what led to her decisions throughout the book and I’m proud of her for doing what she did later on in the book when it came to Max’s decisions I wasn’t a fan of them but you could see the peer pressure that was there and why he didn’t feel like he could say no to the other boys.
I really enjoyed this book and loved how boldly the issues were tackled and discussed in this book head-on. It was really unique in that fact and for that reason, I think it’s a really important book that needs to be discussed so that we can in turn talk about these issues more too. I felt so much over the course of this book and am so glad that I have read it. Highly recommend it!
Thank you Netgalley and Hot Key Books for a free e-arc in exchange for an honest review.
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