Starred Review. Bestseller Picoult (My Sister's Keeper) takes on another contemporary hot-button issue in her brilliantly told new thriller, about a high school shooting. Peter Houghton, an alienated teen who has been bullied for years by the popular crowd, brings weapons to his high school in Sterling, N.H., one day and opens fire, killing 10 people. Flashbacks reveal how bullying caused Peter to retreat into a world of violent computer games. Alex Cormier, the judge assigned to Peter's case, tries to maintain her objectivity as she struggles to understand her daughter, Josie, one of the surviving witnesses of the shooting. The author's insights into her characters' deep-seated emotions brings this ripped-from-the-headlines read chillingly alive. (Mar.)
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Thanks so much Konjunktiv:) I have acutally read this book and it´s one of my favourite book by Jodi Picoult:)

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Sending this book as a surprise to a friend in Finland, hope she has not read it already:)

Got this form a friend but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Ta Björg!

Only just got round to reading this.

Considering the topic, a school shooting, I was expecting a bit more. Now the book seemed a bit light and at 500 pages a bit long. The ending was perhaps a bit disappointing too and why ad the romance? Nevertheless, not a bad read and I guess a good attempt to depict reasons and cosequences of school shootings.

One thing that always comes to me in these high school dramas, are American high schools really that hierarchical with cool kids, geeks and out-casts and do they never mix? Does the head cheerleader always go out with the captain of the football team?

This one went home with a friend.