Review: Justice for the Rejected
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2012
The business of college is cut-throat.  From the politics of admission to the benign dictatorship of the college president, Shepherdton College is muscling its way into the big leagues - a boutique school with the prestige of an Ivy.But somewhere along the way Shepherdton's exclusivity and obsession with only admitting the right sort of student angered the wrong people.  And their next step was foreshadowed by the appearance of hundreds of envelopes bearing the phrase, "Still coming."The idea for this story was the most unique I have ever read.  I have to say, the very idea of an army of rejected college applicants threatening to converge on the campus that refused them in the first place is terrifying.  High school over-achievers do not suffer failure, it isn't hard to imagine them snapping and demanding justice.There are many twists to the story, and not everyone is what they first seem.  In fact, only the college president seems to present the same face throughout the book.  This is in perfect keeping with her character.The only real quibble I have with it is the way the peeping tom story line wrapped up - it was too neat and rather anticlimactic.  Since that wasn't the major plotline in the book, it wasn't an irritation - more like a wish for more.And really, that is what makes someone a good author - when they make you wish for more.I got this book for free, but it was definitely something I would have paid for.