Book Recommendation: Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Hey

and welcome back to my blog. Today's post is about Hate List by Jennifer Brown.

Hate List follows Valarie who along with her boyfriend wrote a list of people and things that the hated. On one day in their junior year Nick starts shooting which kills and injures his fellow students. He injures Valarie as she placed herself in front of someone who was about to be shot before killing himself. It then follows Valarie in her senior as she has to deal with people blaming her for what Nick did at the school. Classmates are torn between calling her a victim or a part of the whole plan.

Valarie also has to deal with the fact that her home life is also falling apart around her. The only good thing that has come out of the whole situation is that the girl who Valarie saved from being shot is being nice to her where as before she wasn't. 

Valarie has to learn to forgive, learn to trust people and is starting to think about the future. By the end of the book it is Graduation and the senior year decided to do a memorial to remember those who were injured and lost their lives.

What I liked about this book is that it shows the aftermath and effects of an American School shooting from the people involved and how it can ruin lives. 

It pulls on the heart strings and deals with such serious matters, that you wouldn't normally see in a book. What I like about the book is that it deals with every day school problems such as bullying,  deciding if you want to go off to college, friendship, love and heartache and every day life such as a split family, and it also goes in to the extreme and deals with a school shooting. 

This book is such a fantastic read that will bring you to tears, it will make you look at the way that you do things, say things and think things. It is one of those books that is so good that I have read it twice and both times it made me cry.

If it ever becomes a movie it will be one of those movies you need to take tissues with you, in fact if you read it you'll need a box.

Lauren

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