The first step is admitting you have a problem

     As you all know from my last post. I am reading, "The Hate List" by Jennifer Brown. I started around a week ago and im nearly through the entire novel which has almost 500 pages. I am attached to this book. I have even started reading on the bus. Not only is it entetaining in the beginning, but what I also really like is that he keeps the story fast pase and it doesn't get boring. I find many times that each author I read has, at some time the story gets long and super slow.
     The story also takes breaks and goes back into flashbacks and elaborates more on the background of the story. The most recent one has taken place right after Valerie got back from her first day back at her highschool. Her mother was the first one in the front of the pick-up line. Brown says how Valerie was so concerned about how getting out of the school that she ran past her locker and left all of her homework inside. Brown adds that Valerie and her mother had shared a laughing moment and for the first time since the shotting Val's cheeks actually hurt from laughing so hard.

Then the flashback came.

     It was of her and she was back in the hospital with her family and a couple of police officers. There was live coverage of the shooting on the small tv that the officers were watching. Valerie came to and was so confused about what had happened. Her mother was taken out of the room because she was crying herself. It was just Val and her little brother, Frankie left in the hospital room. Frankie had to tell Val that her boyfriend had not only shot (and killed) many people, but also shot Val. She had trouble dealing with all of the news and only a couple days after started seeing Dr. Hieler, her trusty counselor.

     Will she be able to make it through her first trimester?

New one

I have taken a leap.

Last tri, one of my friends was reading this novel and raved about it.... Because I am still waiting for the sequel to my book to come out I thought "what the heck."

Hate List by: Jennifer Brown 

It opens with a flashback from a school shooting. There are ambulances heard in the distance and kids panicking everywhere. The gruesome image is painted with the words from the journal log. It's a newscast from a popular local station. Multiple kids shot and dozens wounded. Then, it takes a different route and brings us to present day. The killer's girlfriend, Valerie Leftman was shot as well but the police and people did not decide whether she is a killer or a hero. Nick, the killer pulled the gun on himself after killing and seriously wounding multiple students and teachers.

The whole plot is surrounded by this list that Nick ad Valerie made. It was of all the people that they hated. (mostly bullies) When the police found the list in Valerie's possession they questioned her role in the killing, but she denied it all and said she didn't know he was going to kill anybody. Later, we learn how seriously disturbed Nick was. In her thoughts, Valerie thinks back to how Nick was always trying to talk to Valerie about committing suicide and running away. Valerie never told anybody about Nick saying this to her.

When she returned back to school, the kids in most of her classes couldn't handle he being there. In her first bell, a girl who was shot in the leg and who was on the list ran out of class crying. The class then breaks into a very heated discussion about having Valerie back in class. Valerie sits through that bell with her head down not talking to anybody. She calls her life source- her counselor and tells him how hard it is to be back in school. He gives her a way out and says that if at the end of their trimester she is still miserable then she can home school.

I think that Valerie will toughen it out and start to make more friends. I can only keep reading to find out what happens next in, "Hate List" by Jennifer Brown