I have no idea why tragedy draws me in to books – fiction and non, but it does. Ok… you may be saying, “really Sheila? Another book on school shootings?” And in a way you could be right. Another cover, but I prefer the one I have which is the one at the top of this review With the help of her therapist and a determination to see things as they really are, Valerie begins to see things in a new light and finds friendship comes in many different forms. Her once friends have nothing to do with her.

When she bravely returns to school for her SR year she finds that everything has changed.

The list is discovered as evidence and it looks to her fellow students as well as Valerie’s parents, that she was an accomplish in the shooting.Īnd even Valerie has to wonder…. Until one day at the end of their Jr year in High School, Nick pulls a gun in the commons, looking to take out those on “the list.” When the shooting is done, 6 students and one teacher are dead, Valerie has a bullet in her leg from trying to stop Nick, who shoots her before he takes his own life. the bullies, the tormentors, just a way to vent and release the pressures of home life for both her and Nick. And when Valerie and Nick became a couple… she shared the list with him and it became a “thing” they liked to add to…. Just a list that Valerie started in a notebook of those people in school….

Hate List by Jennifer Brown