Some Boys by Patty Blount is the story of a girl who is raped by a school sports star, Zac, and then is ostracized by everyone around her and labeled slut. . It's a familiar story, we hear about it too often in the press. This is an important story, one that reminds us that we need to continue to talk with adolescents about what sexual violence and sexual consent are and are not. It's also a story in which a raped girl is called a slut and ostracized by her community rather than supported. Part of the reason is that many of our school systems value sports – which can generate revenue and good press – more than people. So we are often willing to overlook the bad behavior of our sports stars. It is cognitively easier for us to blame the victim and ignore the seriousness of the crime than to break down the ideals we construct in our minds about these men and women we declare "stars"; we write cultural narratives that idolize our subjects and when we get information that contradicts that, we struggle so much with that incongruous information that it's easier for us to deflect blame elsewhere. This is one of the reasons why we continue to talk about slut shaming. As Christa Desir repeatedly points out, slut shaming is one of the reasons why more of Some Boys is told in alternating voices, the voices of Grace and Ian. They are both forced to spend time coming around the empty school to clean the lockers as punishment for various bad behaviors. Grace is already at this point injured and in shock from the after-effects of her rape. She is rejected by everyone at school, called a slut. Her former best friends actively torment her. Even her family doesn't seem to believe what she says. Ian is the best friend and teammate of Zac, the boy who Grace believes raped her. He struggles to meet his father's demands and expectations and maintain his place in the market.