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A review by theawkwardbookw
After by Francine Prose
1.0
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One day, while at school, Tom and the rest of his classmates receive phone calls from their parents informing them of a school shooting a few towns over in Pleasant Valley. Dr. Willner, the new grief and crisis counsellor arrives at the school the next day and begins to enforce new rules that the students believe to be ridiculous and unfair. As time goes on and the rules become stricter, kids begin to disappear. As Tom and his friends begin to realize that things may be getting out of hand, it's already too late.
Well... this book was bad. REALLY bad... When I first began the book, I was thinking I was going to get a story about the after math of a school shooting... boy was I wrong. The plot was extremely boring and flimsy. Nothing is believable or even mildly realistic. The concept behind the story was interesting and I think it could have made for a very cool story, it just was not executed well. The characters were all bland. The actions that the characters took and the thought processes they had were so unrealistic and overly stupid that it just made me roll my eyes half the time. The main character Tom frustrated the HECK out of me. The supporting characters were equally as annoying. All of the dialogue seemed forced and all the characters talked as if they were 12 year olds, even the adults. The book had mild racism and homophobic slurs in it that just made me angry while reading. Not to mention the use of the word 'retarded' as an insult. NOT TO MENTION that the author wrote about a basketball game and then said that it was possible to tie a basketball game... If you are going to include something in your book at least know that it IS NOT POSSIBLE to tie a basketball... like come on lady at least do your research....
One day, while at school, Tom and the rest of his classmates receive phone calls from their parents informing them of a school shooting a few towns over in Pleasant Valley. Dr. Willner, the new grief and crisis counsellor arrives at the school the next day and begins to enforce new rules that the students believe to be ridiculous and unfair. As time goes on and the rules become stricter, kids begin to disappear. As Tom and his friends begin to realize that things may be getting out of hand, it's already too late.
Well... this book was bad. REALLY bad... When I first began the book, I was thinking I was going to get a story about the after math of a school shooting... boy was I wrong. The plot was extremely boring and flimsy. Nothing is believable or even mildly realistic. The concept behind the story was interesting and I think it could have made for a very cool story, it just was not executed well. The characters were all bland. The actions that the characters took and the thought processes they had were so unrealistic and overly stupid that it just made me roll my eyes half the time. The main character Tom frustrated the HECK out of me. The supporting characters were equally as annoying. All of the dialogue seemed forced and all the characters talked as if they were 12 year olds, even the adults. The book had mild racism and homophobic slurs in it that just made me angry while reading. Not to mention the use of the word 'retarded' as an insult. NOT TO MENTION that the author wrote about a basketball game and then said that it was possible to tie a basketball game... If you are going to include something in your book at least know that it IS NOT POSSIBLE to tie a basketball... like come on lady at least do your research....