Book overview
The investigation was supposed to go away quietly. So were they.
When a field house incident at Graham Military College is handed to the people with the most to lose, first-year cadet Kensley Bennett starts asking questions no one wants answered. The answers lead somewhere more dangerous than she expected: straight into the LAMC Foundation - the powerful alumni network that has spent years quietly working to push women back out through the doors the courts forced open just a few years earlier.
Kensley is a knob - a freshman. Bottom of the hierarchy. The system has spent months making sure she understands exactly where she stands.
But someone at the top is paying very close attention to what she knows.
Graham Military College, 1998. Court-ordered integration has brought women into the Corps of Cadets - and the institution is deciding, one incident at a time, what that will actually mean. The silence is called discipline. And the investigation? It's going nowhere - because somewhere between the LAMC's money and the college's reputation, the truth has already been decided.
Look. Judge. Repeat. is a cosy literary thriller about what institutions do when the people inside them know too much - and what it demands of a woman who was never supposed to survive long enough to find out.
Written from the author's own journals. R. M. Kinney was a member of The Citadel's first class of female cadets, Class of 2001. The experiences Kensley endures in these pages was inspired from those journals. Kensley Bennett is fiction yet every silenced glance, every moment of institutional pressure in this novel was lived before it was written.
The Lords of Discipline told you what the institution was capable of. Look. Judge. Repeat. shows you what it feels like from the inside - written by someone they never planned to let in.
For readers of Pat Conroy, Kristin Hannah, and anyone who has ever stood inside a system that was not built for them - and refused to leave.
