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Aug 12, 2013DanceFiddler rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
A friendless high schooler kills herself, and her parents seek to press criminal charges against those who bullied her. The clique that bullied her seeks to keep their names clear. A well-woven story, but unpleasant, with few sympathetic characters and little hope. Also, the author lost me 27 pages in with this sentence: “I love mornings like this in Seattle—you can see Mount Hood from the hill where we live . . .” Mount Hood is in Oregon. You can’t see it from here even on the clearest of days. The Mountain is Mt Rainier! The author has little details about Seattle landmarks (Scarecrow Video) correct, but he somehow missed the name of one of the most important of all (this mistake repeats itself several times). For an out-of-town reader it’s not a big deal, but for a local reader it completely discards believability.