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Barbara Barbara Nov 27, 2012 12:28PM
I just finished this book and I have to say I was impressed. It made me cry. It made me want to scream. It made me sad the way the girl's parents treated her, especially her father. I wanted to shake the man. The parental characters seemed a bit over the top in my opinion but maybe not. It made me sad that, in the end, most of the kids reverted to their normal ways.

If we don't learn from our mistakes, we're bound to repeat them.

Tell me, if you've read this book, how did it affect you? Or did it not affect you at all?



Wow. Just wow.
When I looked at the description of this book, I was initially turned off by it because I thought, "Wow. This Valerie girl still loves this Nick guy who was the shooter? Why would she love someone so evil?" As I read the book, however, I grew to love Nick too, not Nick the shooter, but Nick through Valerie's eyes.
And this book was about way more than a school shooting. This was Valerie's story, and I loved every second of it.
Nick was a normal guy who was a victim of bullying. He was romantic and sweet, and throughout the book I found myself crying at what Nick had to go through.
Sometimes I just wanted to scream at the injustice that was being thrown Valerie's way. Sometimes I lay awake at night feeling betrayed for her, feeling hopeful for her, crying for her.
This was one of my favorite books ever. Period.


I thought it was a powerful book. I feel the book gave a real account about humans. If this were to happen people would normally go back to who they were before the incident. As awful it is it is true.

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Barbara exactly. everyone comments about how sad and tragic such an event is and yet nothing ever changes. I think the parents in this book were just as much ...more
Nov 30, 2012 10:28AM · flag

deleted member Jul 01, 2013 07:53AM   0 votes
It was so beautiful.


Barbara wrote: "I just finished this book and I have to say I was impressed. It made me cry. It made me want to scream. It made me sad the way the girl's parents treated her, especially her father. I wanted to..."

I felt that way about Val's parents as well. Maybe that's there way of coping? Not sure. They did get on my last nerve though. I liked Jessica's transformation, though at times I felt like Val's mom and thought it was an act. I liked the consolation scene with Ginny and Val. It was touching.
I'm just glad Val made it through the whole year. She's strong.


I liked it. It was one of my favorite books that I read last year.


Definitely one of the best book I read this year. I love how Nick was in Val's eyes. This book is like a breath of fresh air from the smuts I've been reading lately and I love it, really love it.


I loved this. After reading I sobbed for at least five minutes. I LOVED IT! Amazing, I loved how it was all raw feeling, and not a ' magical rainbow unicorn and smiles' book, but just a ... AMAZING book!


I wasn't sure if i was going to like this book , i ended up finishing it in about 3 hours. I thought it was amazing and it definatley made me cry. I really felt for Valerie my dad is so much like hers it made my heart hurt. I really liked how the author showed that even tho Nick did a terrible thing he wasn't always bad there was good to him. I also liked how Valerie wanted to get the real story out at the end and not let the media continue to spin lies. I loved this book.


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