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Hate List by Jennifer Brown
5.0

Powerful.

This book was incredible. A difficult subject matter, but this book isn't really about a mass shooting. It's about the aftermath. How we as humans all have the same capacity for hate and love, and how we all deal with tragedy in different ways and how the capacity for forgiveness is also in all of us, if only we let go of that hate How one event causes a ripple in everything and affects everyone. Jennifer captured this brilliantly in my opinion. I
Val was an amazing narrotor. How she struggled to deal with it and how everyone viewed her as guilty. I was hooked, I felt all the pain. All the smiles. I tested up and that honestly something I don't do a lot when reading. Please give this a read, it's worth it. Powerful, compelling, and maybe we can all learn something from the story of the students of Garvin High12\10