despite its flaws- victims begin to blend together, there’s occasionally romance where there shouldn’t be (i liked the lgbtq romance in there though, because it actually added to the story), the shooter’s motives are not properly explained, some plot points aren’t wrapped up- even then, this book had a lot of well crafted emotion and i couldn’t put it down.

edit: reading a lot of review saying this book is super inaccurate and even heartless, so i did some research and changed my original star rating. i still like parts of the book, but as i understand it now, it's quite insensitive and sensationalist.