This book is another that needs to be on all high school reading lists. It's a very tough read content-wise, but incredibly important, timely, and powerful. Overall, I would highly recommend this book. I think it should be read by everyone at least once.

More personal review:
When I first started reading, I really struggled with this book. I had to remind myself numerous times that this book was written for the "Teen" persona. Though after a few chapters, I got into the swing of things and stopped getting annoyed by little things like how pumped the teenagers were to reach Friday so they could go get wasted at a party.

However, I still had a few irks with this book. These included:

1) The use of the "NBD" acronym rather than actually writing it out. In my opinion, stuff like that works when there is texting or emailing occurring in the story, but I cannot stand when it's just thrown into the text randomly.

2) The numerous mentions of how office jobs (and even office clothes) are boring. One mention, maybe two would have been alright. But there were at least four. At that point I was just like, okay we get it....

3) How often the story made it a point to say that there are two sides to every story, but we didn't really see much of the "other side." I felt like we were really only shown Paul in a negative light, though some of the stories Quinn told made him look like a decent guy, I wish we had actually seen proof of that.

4) It seemed like the ending kind of fizzled out. I would have liked to see a bit more of a closing, like what happened with the trial, how things at school turned out, etc.

5) How there really wasn't much mentioned about how the school handled the situation. Maybe it's because I went to a very small school (82 kids K-12 my senior year) but I would have liked to see a assembly or something happen. It bothered me that it seemed like the school was just ignoring the issue.

My favorite lines:
"...trying to stare so hard at my own two feet so I wouldn't have to look up and see what was really going on. And while I'd been doing that, I'd been walking in the wrong direction. I didn't want to walk away anymore."

"Sometimes, when people get treated less than human, the best way to help them is to simply treat them as human. Not as victims. Just you as you."

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."