Final blog of Hate List

Over all my thoughts on the book were good, actually great. To me the hardest part to read was the last part at the graduation when they were talking about the people involved deeply in the shooting. Nick was even included. The one thing I liked the most about the book was Valerie was looking back on her and nick and he brought her that cd with all the songs that reminded him of her and gave it to her. That boy got game, I literally highlighted that in my book because I swear I’m going to do that one of these days. One thing I didn’t expect at all was her and all her enemies before to become friends then her old friends kind of faded away from her. I know the feeling of how that is so I felt her pain when it came to losing her friends but life goes on. And she continued moving forward with her life which I was happy to see her making progress with. For a second I didn’t think she was going to make but I knew she would cause all stories have a good ending. For this being like one of the first books I have ever read. Actually sitting down and reading. Not wanting to put it down when it got good. Also picturing some of the scenes happen in my head. I have to say the author did a good job with this novel. And I’m looking forward to reading my other book the second half of the semester

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In this novel the text is a little off to me. Especially with there being bullying going around through the school.  Me being from a public school, the words they use in the book are of a high callabore. During high school there is a lot more cursing with the students. Like in the dialogue when she is talking to nick or the bully on the bus she should have used a lot more profanity in my eyes. I know when I was in high school there was a f word and the b word left and right and I know it’s like that in any other school for example Notre dame high school and Washington high school. One thing I thought the other should have changed was the dialogue between the students and the thoughts of Valerie because I know in reality and that’s how she want this book to come off, she would have been doing a lot more swearing and a lot more anger. As a reader it would have brought me closer to the book understanding her feelings and where she was coming from as a person. And I think some of my fellow students would agree with me. The text wasn’t bad at all I still got into the book, but it was like she didn’t sound like a teenager. She sounded like she was in her thirties. To me that’s one of the biggest things with authors and writing books they don’t put themselves in the situation or think of it as a teenager would.