Pretty Furious, E.K. Johnston
Pretty Furious, E.K. Johnston
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Pretty Furious

Author: E.K. Johnston

Narrator: Louisa Zhu, Jen Zhao, Marรฟke Hendrikse, May Charters, Devon Sorvari

Unabridged: 5 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/16/2024


Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestseller E.K. Johnston returns with a contemporary feminist young adult novel about a small town, fierce friendships, and revenge served cold.

You will never suspect us,
But you’ll always wonder how we did it
. . . and why.

In the small town of Eganston, Ontario, five good girls have had enough. Having faced the best and the worst of their tight-knit community, Maddie Carter and her friends are tired of the unfair societal expectations placed upon them. When a scandal involving a local girl sparks outrage, Maddie and her friends decide it’s time to take matters—and justice—into their own hands. Together, they’ve decided that it’s time for a reckoning and that justice is their privilege to give.

Join these five young women whose struggles offer a powerful glimpse into the emotional and social challenges of adolescence.

About The Author

E.K. Johnston is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of several YA novels, including the L.A. Time Book Prize finalist The Story of Owen and Star Wars: Ahsoka. Her novel A Thousand Nights was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. The New York Times called The Story of Owen "a clever first step in the career of a novelist who, like her troubadour heroine, has many more songs to sing" and in its review of Exit, Pursued by a Bear, the Globe & Mail called Johnston "the Meryl Streep of YA," with "limitless range." E.K. Johnston lives in southwestern Ontario.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathaniel on April 16, 2024

Reread: I have now read this twice in two days. I bought it yesterday, read it in one sitting, and sat down today to reread and annotate it. I'm so glad I did. I was so frantic to know how it would end yesterday that I missed a lot of little details. Johnston is really good at setting things up with......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on April 19, 2024

This was a FANTASTIC story about rural life in small town Ontario, female friendship and revenge as a group of teen girls band together to get vengeance on some of the boys and people of the town who have wronged them. I loved this on audio with a full cast of Canadian narrators. It was also really......more

Goodreads review by Marina on April 21, 2024

This was like reading only the middle of a more well rounded and fleshed out book.......more

Goodreads review by Fay on April 18, 2024

Thank you Penguin Teen for the #gifted ARC and thank you PRH Audio for my #gifted listening copy of Pretty Furious! #PRHAInfluencer #PRHAudioPartner #PenguinTeenPartner #PrettyFurious ๐“๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž: ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐…๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐€๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ: ๐„.๐Š. ๐‰๐จ๐ก๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐‹๐จ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐š ๐™๐ก๐ฎ, ๐‰๐ž๐ง ๐™๐ก๐š๐จ, ๐Œ๐š๐ซรฟ๐ค๐ž ๐‡๐ž๐ง๐๐ซ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ž, ๐Œ๐š๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ง ๐’๐จ๐ซ......more

Goodreads review by Paula on February 14, 2025

Here's a super strong entry in the recent mini-trend Nice White Girls Resist: 5 friends who enact 6 acts of resistance (they think about calling it revenge, but decide that since they're also trying to raise consciousness in their small town, resistance is more appropriate). What I like: their do-or......more


Quotes

Praise for Exit, Pursued by a Bear

“A raw, powerful story that’ll stay with you long after it’s over.”Buzzfeed

“E. K. Johnston has a seemingly limitless range. This is realistic fiction at its best.”—The Globe & Mail

“Soberly triumphant.”Toronto Star

“A tenderly written, heartfelt coming of age and an incisive, sensitive examination of trauma after an assault. Fresh, memorable, and thought-provoking.”—Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author

“A unflinching exploration of what it means to be a girl, what it means to be a friend, and what it means to be a survivor. A determined, transformative book that every teen girl should read.” —Tess Sharpe, author of The Girls I’ve Been

“Fierce and gorgeously drawn, this is a rape story that doesn’t focus on victimhood.”—Booklist, starred review

Exit, Pursued by a Bear is a story of triumph, not just survival.”Quill & Quire, starred review