Monday, August 13, 2018

Hate List written by Jennifer Brown


     
                            *** WARNING: READER'S DISCRETION IS ADVISED!***


      Incase you forgot or have not seen my blog post that has to do with school shooting you can look at if you would like which is about books that had to do with either school shooting and also true stories about the Columbine High School shooting (posted on 2/7/17). Let me just tell you now, the book, Hate List, is about school shootings. 

      When Valerie's boyfriend, Nick Levil, committed murder by going into his high school and started shooting his classmates! But not just any classmates, Valerie and Nick had created what they called the Hate List which had names of their classmates that they hated because Valerie and Nick would get bullied these classmates all the time. After the school shooting, Valerie had to begin her senior year of high school learning to cope with the fact that her beloved boyfriend injured and killed many of their classmates before Nick turned the gun on himself. This book will take you on a journey through a teenager's mind of her troubled life after a tragedy that people do blame her for since she had co-created the Hate List and her boyfriend had taken action to go through with the plan. 

     Personally, I (strangely) enjoyed the Hate List because I thought the author did a great job setting up the scenes at the beginning of the book to where it draws me in and the flow of the scene changes through the book. Also, I thought the author did a fantastic job creating personalities to all of the characters in the story such as Valerie's family, the classmates and the teachers, Valerie's therapist, and the police officers. 

    In concluding, Hate List is a fictional story written by Jennifer Brown and it is about a girl who had to deal with the fact that her boyfriend had committed a high school shooting and she now has to pick up the pieces and move on even though she felt alone and has to deal with everyone blaming her for the shooting. 



Brown, Jennifer. Hate List. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
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