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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Self harm, Grief, Mass/school shootings
Moderate: Ableism, Racism, Sexism
*I won this book in a giveaway*
Can I say amazing.
5 grade 12 high school students gets thrown into the only open room during a lockdown: The boys washroom but one of them knows who the shooter is. I love how the story is told in different ways such as text messages, poetry, journals, homework assignments and prose. You get to see how the lockdown affects everyone individually and as well as their back stories of themselves. I really enjoyed how some situations continues through different characters point of view. It was really interesting how you get to know what every students were feeling and thinking during the lockdown and story telling that was going on during the lockdown. Love it. I want more pleaseeeee.
Can I say amazing.
5 grade 12 high school students gets thrown into the only open room during a lockdown: The boys washroom but one of them knows who the shooter is. I love how the story is told in different ways such as text messages, poetry, journals, homework assignments and prose. You get to see how the lockdown affects everyone individually and as well as their back stories of themselves. I really enjoyed how some situations continues through different characters point of view. It was really interesting how you get to know what every students were feeling and thinking during the lockdown and story telling that was going on during the lockdown. Love it. I want more pleaseeeee.
I read this a long time ago but this is one of my favourite books. I don’t love the writing style and how each chapter is a different persons perspective because that can be boring depending on the person. but I love the storyline and I want to re read this book soon
This book was Amazing and well written! Caroline Pignat brought us 5 characters that we could relate to.
was cleaning out my shelf today and remembered how much i fucking despised this book as an autistic person. this isn’t even to say the portrayal of noah was inaccurate, i do think we need to see the way autism varies and how there’s not one way to be autistic, but it ALSO makes me feel like the author didn’t do proper research because oh my god xander is so autistic. i don’t even know if it was intended or not because it’s never said in canon, but xander just screams autism/aspie (not getting sarcasm, special interest is comics & photography, etc.) and i loved him SO much but everything else abt this book was just terrible.
i have so many issues with this book but my biggest is the portrayal of the popular girl who’s name i don’t remember (violet?), who was obv the author’s attempt at subverting the trope which spectacularly failed. i also didn’t like how all these kids were just vibing while their classmates were out being shot to death. alice and hogan were fine, i didn’t care much for them.
i ALSO want to say rq that i’m kind of sick of authors making school shooting trauma porn books and then absolutely butchering it. please stop with the “breakfast club school shooter edition” it is not charming or enjoyable it is something real and horrifying and it can be portrayed right in books and plays but this is definitely not how to do it. i might read this book again tomorrow just to see if i changed my mind on it but these are my very frustrated thoughts from seeing this book on the back of my shelf again.
i have so many issues with this book but my biggest is the portrayal of the popular girl who’s name i don’t remember (violet?), who was obv the author’s attempt at subverting the trope which spectacularly failed. i also didn’t like how all these kids were just vibing while their classmates were out being shot to death. alice and hogan were fine, i didn’t care much for them.
i ALSO want to say rq that i’m kind of sick of authors making school shooting trauma porn books and then absolutely butchering it. please stop with the “breakfast club school shooter edition” it is not charming or enjoyable it is something real and horrifying and it can be portrayed right in books and plays but this is definitely not how to do it. i might read this book again tomorrow just to see if i changed my mind on it but these are my very frustrated thoughts from seeing this book on the back of my shelf again.
This book was okay. It wasn’t bad but it didn’t have that wow factor. I felt that the students did not act like they were in a serious lockdown even after they learned it was. The book describes itself as a “modern-day Breakfast Club” but it certainly was not. The characters that were supposed to be unique and different were disturbing and odd. This is not he way a lockdown would happen and this is certainly not how security works at a school. Events like these are hard to write and only highly skilled authors can write and digest the properly. This just wasn’t the case. It was a good story but it wasn’t accurate and it just didn’t capture the reader’s attention the way it should have.
A little confused with why maxwell did that stuff, but overall, it was good
I HATE how they used the school shooting as a secondary plot to their social lives, also how unrealistic it was, during a school shooting, WHAT KID WOULD BE SCROLLING THROUGH INSTAGRAM!?? i absolutely hated how they protreyed mental illness and used it to excuse max’s actions
fast-paced