Review of Heretics Anonymous By Katie Henry

Michael is an atheist. So as he walks through the doors at St. Clare’s—a strict Catholic school—sporting a plaid tie, things can’t get much worse. His dad has just made the family move again, and Michael needs a friend. When a girl challenges their teacher in class, Michael thinks he might have found one, and a fellow nonbeliever at that. Only this girl, Lucy, is not just Catholic . . . she wants to be a priest.

But Lucy introduces Michael to other St. Clare’s outcasts, and he officially joins Heretics Anonymous, where he can be an atheist, Lucy can be an outspoken feminist, Avi can be Jewish and gay, Max can wear whatever he wants, and Eden can practice paganism. After an incident in theology class, Michael encourages the Heretics to go from secret society to rebels intent on exposing the school’s hypocrisies. When Michael takes one mission too far—putting the other Heretics at risk—he must decide whether to fight for his own freedom, or rely on faith, whatever that means, in God, his friends, or himself.

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I really liked this book. The writing was light and humerous and it was not your classic,l boring contemporary YA novel. But the best part was how this book had a different take on a YA rebellion.

Rebellions are found so often in YA books, but they are usually in dystopians or fantasies or sometimes in historical fiction. This book was definately none of those genres, but had its own rebellion. Michael and the rest of Heretics Anonymous are rebelling against the administration of their Catholic school, St. Clare's, and the way it's run.

They find their own ways to bring their point across by doing things such as changing up their uniforms (and their fellow students) without actually breaking the dress code.

This book had me laughing, plotting my own school-revolution, and overall, just enjoying it.