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A review by islandgeekgirl
Shooter by Caroline Pignat
4.0
I was really excited to read this book because of the 'The Breakfast Club meets We Need to Talk About Kevin' comparisons. The Breakfast Club is one of my favourite movies so any time there's a mention of it in the synopsis of a book, I know I'll be picking it up and reading it. Thankfully, this one didn't disappoint and I was able to see where The Breakfast Club comparisons came from.
The book was told in the POVs of the five teenagers and used different styles to tell the story. We saw prose, verse, text messages, homework assignments, diagrams and it was done it a way that was still easy to read and understand even with all the switching POVs and styles. The characters were all also unique to each other that it was easy to tell whose POV it was. What was hard was choosing a favourite. I still go back and forth on different ones each time I think of this book.
My favourite thing was how these characters who were stuck together interacted with each other. None of them were friends but knew of each other, or had had run-ins with each other, but nothing of significance except siblings Alice and Noah. The feel of the room could go from friendly to hostile to uncomfortable so much with just one interaction between two characters. I liked the way more information about each character was slowly revealed to the reader but also to the group and it started to change the way each person was viewed. It was also great to see growth in the characters even with the book being set in such a short span of time.
There was a lot of tension through the book as well. With the majority of it being set in one small room, it could have gotten repetitive after a while but Caroline Pignat did a great job of keeping things interesting and keeping the plot moving. It made me want to keep reading and I ended up finishing it in about a day and a half(and only then because I had to work).
The book was told in the POVs of the five teenagers and used different styles to tell the story. We saw prose, verse, text messages, homework assignments, diagrams and it was done it a way that was still easy to read and understand even with all the switching POVs and styles. The characters were all also unique to each other that it was easy to tell whose POV it was. What was hard was choosing a favourite. I still go back and forth on different ones each time I think of this book.
My favourite thing was how these characters who were stuck together interacted with each other. None of them were friends but knew of each other, or had had run-ins with each other, but nothing of significance except siblings Alice and Noah. The feel of the room could go from friendly to hostile to uncomfortable so much with just one interaction between two characters. I liked the way more information about each character was slowly revealed to the reader but also to the group and it started to change the way each person was viewed. It was also great to see growth in the characters even with the book being set in such a short span of time.
There was a lot of tension through the book as well. With the majority of it being set in one small room, it could have gotten repetitive after a while but Caroline Pignat did a great job of keeping things interesting and keeping the plot moving. It made me want to keep reading and I ended up finishing it in about a day and a half(and only then because I had to work).