librarianryan 's review for:

3.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

 
This book packs quite a bit into a few pages. You have the only black boy and a white school. You have ghosts and frights and other things that go bump in the night. You have LGBTQ factors. As well as school shootings, death and everything else. Florida recently banned this book and it’s not hard to guess why. Do I think that book deserves to be banned… absolutely not. This book has a heaviness to it. The overarching idea is that Jake is trying to keep the ghost of a serial killer school shooter From killing anybody else. But he has to deal with his issues of being in the LGBTq community and how that affects his family. Parts of this book were completely stereotypical and other parts were unique. Overall, this is a very interesting read, but there is a lot there.