“I had heard good things about this book, so I went into it with relatively high expectations. However, I had a hard time even finishing it.
I knew going into it that it was about a school shooting, but I didn't expect it to be so similar to the Columbine shooting. I read the book Columbine last year, so I was familiar with the actual events. Even small details were the same, to the point where it felt like Picoult just used the tragedy as the plot for her book. If she wanted to write a novel based on Columbine, she should have just said that's what it was. This just felt like she was too lazy to come up with her own plot.
There was also, in my opinion, way too much cussing and too many graphic descriptions of sex that added nothing to the story. She could have gotten her point across without the unnecessary detail. It just cheapened the story.
Thankfully, the very end of the book, during the trial, was finally more engaging. But not long enough to make up for the rest of the book.”
