The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun.
10:00 a.m.The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.
10:02 a.m.The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.
10:03The auditorium doors won’t open.
10:05Someone … next class.
10:03
The auditorium doors won’t open.
10:05
Someone starts shooting.
Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.
A Buzzfeed Best YA of 2016
#1 Young Adult Debut of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Winter ‘15 Kids Indie Next List
Goodreads YA Best Books of the Month
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Bustle.com 18 of 2016’s Most-Anticipated YA Novels
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A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Young Adult Fiction
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This book is amazing! I highly recommend to anyone who loves thrillers and page-turners. You can easily read this in one sitting. I would not read this if you are sensitive to bad situations.
So I gave this book a 5-star rating because I feel like the people (note: not the characters) within this book deserve no less. I did think it was a really good book, but I think that was more about my feelings for the sufferings of the students within. I thought the different POVs were a unique aspect of this type of story and I think it really added another dimension to the story. I do think, though, that sometimes the words were a bit lackluster to what was really going on and that Nijkamp sometimes played too much into the stereotypes of people involved in such situations. I think that while she did a good job, there was much left to be said.