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E.K. Johnston’s EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR is a powerful, emotional, tough yet positive story that is exceptionally well-written. It’s not easy reading a story about rape. It’s challenging, difficult, angry-making, heartbreaking. But the author presents it in a way that let’s you see beyond that violent act and get to know her character, connect with her, see her for who she is and was and not just as a victim. It is a moving and engaging story that, while it puts you through the ringer, allows you to feel hope.

Hermione is strong, but not unrealistically so. She has a great support structure in her parents, her friends, her coach, the police officer assigned to her case, her therapist, yet not one that feels as if she’s too fortunate to have it. She refuses to be labeled as a victim, act like one, or be treated like one. But she’s not afraid to rely on her supports to help her through the day-to-day.

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR lets you get to know Hermione both before her attack and after – flaws and all. It lets you share in her recovery process. It focuses on the positive – healing, strength, resilience, goals, choices, power – but keeps things believable. It tells Hermione’s story in a way that is as helpful and informative as it is compelling. And while it doesn’t shy away from the subject matter, it doesn’t feel exploitative.

While the topic may be one that is too mature, too personal, or too sensitive for some readers, it is not one that should dissuade other readers from picking up this incredibly amazing book. EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR is not too dark, too depressing, too weighty. The author struck just the right balance between seriousness and entertainment. It is uplifting. It is heart-rending. It is hopeful. It is beautifully written. Hermione Winters is inspiring.

And it is one of those extraordinary stories that might just help one reader find a way through the darkness or find a way to help someone they know through it. I cannot recommend this enough.


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Exit Pursued by a Bear EK Johnston Books Reviews

Hermoine seems to have it all. Co-Captian of the cheer squad and ready to begin her senior year at high school. All that is ripped away from her when she wakes up in the hospital with no recollection of what happened except being giving a drink by a boy she barely saw.
While the writing was wonderful, I wish that every rape victim had the strength to be as well adjusted as Hermoine did. She had a fantastic support system (mom, dad etc) which was a little unrealistic to me (unfortantley)
When I finished this book, I was both so angry and so uplifted at the same time; I'm so angry that this experience and these resources and this support aren't there for every girl who survives sexual assault and reality, and so grateful that this book is there so that they all know exactly what they deserve. Johnston's writing is taut, gripping, and beautiful, and Hermione is such a wonderful character--honest, strong, vulnerable, grieving, and utterly, palpably real. And I wish that every survivor out there had a friend like Polly. Just wonderful.
SO powerful. So beautiful. So intense. I enjoyed the character dynamics in the opening, but then from the moment the crisis hit (about 50 pages in), I suddenly COULD NOT STOP READING from then until the end of the book.

I love the heroine, Hermione, so much. I love her wonderful friends and family and support system so much. I cheered for her SO fiercely. And this book made me care desperately about cheerleading, too! Hermione is an intensely committed athlete, and I was ALL in as she fought to win and NOT be defined by what had happened to her.

I can't remember the last time any book made me cry so much, but it was fiercely - FIERCELY - uplifting, too.

I'm so glad I read it.
This book is a heartbreaking example of perfection.

What makes it clearly so is the character development. Each character is exquisitely crafted and impacts the story in an exact and satisfying way. I love so many...the therapist, the cheerleading coach, the parents, the nurses....

Hermione is brave in the least patronizing way you can imagine. She's a rape victim that refuses to mold to the stereotypes of victims often depicted in literature, especially YA literature.

She's firm and frustrated and forthcoming and confused. She's real and she drew me in from her first word.

Even more triumphant than Hermione is her best friend Polly, who is flawless and fierce and you'll want to know her.

I love this book because it's everything other stories try to be. It's not a political statement. It's not very dramatic.

It's just the terrible of real life, told beautifully.
I'm having a lot of emotions right now, so bear with me here.

(Pun not totally intended.)

In the last four years, I have mostly avoided anything that was about rape. It's a huge trigger for me and I never really know if it's gonna happen or how. I know that reading about it can do it (as happened reading SPEAK in the semester after I was raped). So I've mostly avoided it.

I knew what EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR was about when I bought it. I knew what I was getting into. It's the first time I've actively chosen to read a book like this. I'd heard so much good, and its title is my favorite stage direction ever, and the cover is mindblowingly gorgeous, so I had to give it a try.

I'm glad I did, because it's beautiful. It's real, and honest, and while the emotions are intense, I never felt unsafe while I was reading it. (That being the difference between this book and, say, Game of Thrones. Here, rape and the victim are being treated with care, knowledge, love. They are not being treated like spectacles or entertainment.)

I almost wish I'd had this four years ago. I think it could have helped me a lot in the aftermath of my attacks. But in any case, I have it now, and so do many others.
E.K. Johnston’s EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR is a powerful, emotional, tough yet positive story that is exceptionally well-written. It’s not easy reading a story about rape. It’s challenging, difficult, angry-making, heartbreaking. But the author presents it in a way that let’s you see beyond that violent act and get to know her character, connect with her, see her for who she is and was and not just as a victim. It is a moving and engaging story that, while it puts you through the ringer, allows you to feel hope.

Hermione is strong, but not unrealistically so. She has a great support structure in her parents, her friends, her coach, the police officer assigned to her case, her therapist, yet not one that feels as if she’s too fortunate to have it. She refuses to be labeled as a victim, act like one, or be treated like one. But she’s not afraid to rely on her supports to help her through the day-to-day.

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR lets you get to know Hermione both before her attack and after – flaws and all. It lets you share in her recovery process. It focuses on the positive – healing, strength, resilience, goals, choices, power – but keeps things believable. It tells Hermione’s story in a way that is as helpful and informative as it is compelling. And while it doesn’t shy away from the subject matter, it doesn’t feel exploitative.

While the topic may be one that is too mature, too personal, or too sensitive for some readers, it is not one that should dissuade other readers from picking up this incredibly amazing book. EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR is not too dark, too depressing, too weighty. The author struck just the right balance between seriousness and entertainment. It is uplifting. It is heart-rending. It is hopeful. It is beautifully written. Hermione Winters is inspiring.

And it is one of those extraordinary stories that might just help one reader find a way through the darkness or find a way to help someone they know through it. I cannot recommend this enough.