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Peter's childhood and youth partly reads itself as many do. Those which are "unfortunate" to be different and don't want to or can't be like the mainstream are the outsider, therefore often the targets of mocking and malice. Tackling the circumstances that might lead to school shootings I found the book a bit too much to be a dripping cliché.
Of course it is interesting to see through the shooter's eyes but I never felt that would justify what the main character Peter did. More important to me would have been a focus on his parents (whose faults also felt like the typical cliché), not only in the past but preferably in the present but that's just my opinion. Instead we get a denying father and a mother only asking herself what she did wrong.
To come to the plot itself I found a lot of characters far fetched and just too unbelievable to really have happened.
The ending is absolutely unrealistic and unbelievable. It seems forced and stands out of the rest of the book. Although the book is fictional it relates on facts and research of actually happened School shootings in the past. Why the writer felt the ending must not match the rest of the book is an unsolved mystery to me.
Overall, I didn't like it but I didn't dislike it either. For me it was just a collection of other facts about school shootings, circumstances and trial journals.
The book might be something for students to read in school and maybe learn about their everyday actions in school.
Peter's childhood and youth partly reads itself as many do. Those which are "unfortunate" to be different and don't want to or can't be like the mainstream are the outsider, therefore often the targets of mocking and malice. Tackling the circumstances that might lead to school shootings I found the book a bit too much to be a dripping cliché.
Of course it is interesting to see through the shooter's eyes but I never felt that would justify what the main character Peter did. More important to me would have been a focus on his parents (whose faults also felt like the typical cliché), not only in the past but preferably in the present but that's just my opinion. Instead we get a denying father and a mother only asking herself what she did wrong.
To come to the plot itself I found a lot of characters far fetched and just too unbelievable to really have happened.
The ending is absolutely unrealistic and unbelievable. It seems forced and stands out of the rest of the book. Although the book is fictional it relates on facts and research of actually happened School shootings in the past. Why the writer felt the ending must not match the rest of the book is an unsolved mystery to me.
Overall, I didn't like it but I didn't dislike it either. For me it was just a collection of other facts about school shootings, circumstances and trial journals.
The book might be something for students to read in school and maybe learn about their everyday actions in school.
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