The Hate List by Jennifer Brown

This story is about a girl named Valerie and her boyfriend Nick who make a list of people and things that they hate. Nick used the list to pick his targets for the shooting, killing several, shooting his girlfriend, and then killing himself. After this whole incident and a summer of seclusion Valerie goes back to school to move on with her life. In the beginning of the novel I came to the conclusion that to Valerie the hate list was just a game, but nick always seemed serious about what he wrote in the notebook. Valerie had no whereabouts of the events that were about to take place that morning her boyfriend shot up the school cafeteria. By my readings, Nick acting out in this way could be him just saying he is sick of being picked on, sick of the snobby people who brag all the time and basically sick of school all together. Judging by what I have read so far, I believe that at the end of the novel Valerie will end up telling everyone the truth and explain her part of the story and maybe about how her boyfriend was acting strange and distant the morning of the shootings. If anyone had future knowledge of the event, it probably could’ve been stopped. I am highly looking forward to reading the rest of the novel and getting to the conclusion that the author has set out for us.