I have mixed feelings on this. For one, there was so much going on that it was distracting from the story. Four main characters, each of them dealing with a host of things that sometimes related to the shooting and sometimes didn't. I was hoping it would be more nuanced. It felt like it tried to delve deeper into what causes mass shootings and came up with "evil" and "abusive parents." It was a bit of a shallow way to deal with difficult issues, which left it feeling melodramatic. There simply wasn't enough time to go in depth with everything brought up in the book.

But it kept me on the edge of my seat until I was finished with good suspense and I did enjoy Nijkamp's writing style, although it could have benefited from longer sections.