Although, that’s part of the persona for her because it matches how she acts and goes about things. We never actually know the main characters name, which, is already different. There were things I liked and things I disliked but I’ll say that it wasn’t anything that I thought it would be. I had no idea what I was in for and even though it surprised me, I’m satisfied with the outcome. That doesn’t necessarily mean I didn’t like it or that it didn’t intrigue me.
This was such a weird and unusual read for me. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power, and suggests that we all are culpable. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn’t he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire.Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined.
But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong-even evil. Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. enthralling and ultimately sobering" ( Kirkus Reviews). A young novelist "turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher.
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