What I found incredibly bothersome about this novel is that there isn’t really a storyline. It has light BDSM but its focus is our main character’s (MC) twisted way of thinking that gains her the power she desperately needs. It has obsession, manipulation and tells the story of both these characters sexual awakening. It’s not your typical teacher/student relationship novel that most people would pick up. Innocents deals with sexuality in a different approach you could say. She’s so brutally honest and enchanting that you become enticed with what she’s saying. I really appealed to the way things were explained and the voice of our protagonist. One of my favourite things was the writing style. Coote really underlined the way a sociopathic teenager would be in this circumstance and I was glad that part wasn’t misconstrued. It was intriguing to learn about her mindset and how everything she does is very methodical and calculated. There’s an element of mystery to what she’s about to do or the over all explanation as to why she thinks this way.
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. 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.
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