Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun.
10:00 a.m.
The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.
10:02 a.m.
The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.
10:03
The auditorium doors won't open.
10:05
Someone starts shooting.
Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.
Book Review:
This story made me feel all of the things. I was terrified, anxious, relieved, happy, sad, and content. I could resonate with the mind-set of many of the characters, but especially Claire. I felt like I knew who she was from the inside out. Each of the characters is very different and I don't care who you are, but you are most likely going to resonate with one of them. I felt for all of them.
I was sitting in a lecture hall the first day I started reading. When I got to the gun shots, my leg started shaking, my eyes wouldn't stop running over the words, I didn't take the time to process. It all felt like hyper speed and like it was in slow motion at the same time. I had tears in my eyes and fear running through my veins. I felt like this until the last few pages. It was fast paced and full of emotion, that is for sure.
I don't know what else to say about how incredible it was, other than just that, but the content is something to be talked about. This is the first book that I have ever read, that took place during a school shooting. With the amount of school shootings that have occurred in recent history, this novel is just as important as any nonfiction book. I felt as though, I have been desensitized almost to gun violence, this book, brought me back to reality. I felt that fear for those characters. I felt their confusion and pain and disgust and guilt. I wanted to be able to jump into the story and save the day, but I couldn't, just as they couldn't do anything more than try to stay alive. We had some heroes in the book though and it made me wonder if any of the people that surround me would be as brave as those characters. Would I be that brave? Truly thought provoking.
Pages: 285 Rate: 5/5
Favorite Quote:
"There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere."
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