Intense

 I'm reading the Hate List by Jennifer Brown. this is such a good book. It's about a school shooting provoked by a "Hate List" made by a girl named Valerie and her boyfriend Nick. To Valerie the list was a way to vent her feelings. Nick really didn't go about the list the same way, he really did hate these people on the list and was willing to make the people in the list pay for what they did to him and his girlfriend. The list was used to pick his targets. During the shooting Valerie saved a class mate yet was blamed for the shooting because she helped create the list. Nick on the other hand ended up dead. He got shot when Valarie tried to take the gun away, it got ugly and he ended up getting shot.
  Valarie had the summer to come to grips with what happened. She's having trouble facing everyone back in school. Everyone points their finger at her, blaming her for the death of fellow students that passed away during the shooting. I think it's wrong! She's as much as a victim as everybody else. It wasn't her that brought the gun to school or the one shooting. It was her boyfriend Nick, how was she suppose to know that making that stupid list would cause so much trouble? I'm not saying that her taking part in  making the list is right, but she honestly didn't know it would escalate this far. Would you blame Valerie for the shooting? Do you think she's the one to blame, because the person that was shooting is dead and she's the only one they have to blame?
  She also has to deal with the fact that everyone is talking cruelly about the boy she loved, and now is dead. Yet she knows that he was the killer, but she loved him. She can't turn her back on Nick even if he is dead. I would be crushed to pick sides. I get that she loved him and feels like she the one to blame for everything. truth be told how was she suppose to know things would turn out this way. She can't let people intimidate her. The people pointing their finger at her should shut up ass well. I'm not defending Nick for what he did, but if they weren't such assholes to him or Valerie they wouldn't have had a reason to make the hate list. So no one is innocent in this scenario. 

Borderline

I just finished reading the book Borderline by Allan Stratton.(takes place right after the 9/11 attack) Sami Sabiri is the only Muslim kid at his private school. He gets picked on everyday by a couple of high school jocks just for being Muslim. His only true friends go to a public school, he barely gets to see them he feels like they've grown apart and is afraid to loose them. Yet things get a whole lot worse when he catches his father in a lie.At first when he finds the unfamiliar phone number he thinks his dad is having an affair.Soon enough the FBI are at their door taking his father away and tearing his house up. Apparently his father is a part of a terrorist attack! the phone number was the number their leader. Sami's house his surrounded with the press and his mother is broken down.
 He sets out to clear his families name. He was relived that his father wasn't cheating on his mother because he didn't know how to break it to her but trying to clear his families would in no doubt be a harder task. With the information he found when he was snooping in his fathers computer he know that his father and the so called Tariq would meet in he next couple of days. With the help of his friends Andy and Marty he set of to the city. Would you risk your life in order to try and clear your families name? would you be able to come face to face with a terrorist? would you ask your friends to risk it for you as well.
In my opinion this was a good book. It was able to keep me interested, and guessing the whole time. It differently had a strange twist towards the end of the book. That what i likes most of all. It wasn't something that you saw coming. It also didn't just have a happily ever after.?