Dawn-Kevin Brooks

Have you ever thought about killing something you knew you couldn't really kill? Have you ever had a parent disappear out of your life for 2 years? A girl named Dawn has. This is about how she deals with her father leaving one day. And how she thinks she can kill God when he doesn’t exist on earth.

The day Dawn’s dad comes back is when she hears about the trouble her dad got their family into by crossing the wrong guy. Then her mother does something drastic that most mothers would probably do if they felt their child was endangered.

I really liked this book by Kevin Brooks because it was really interesting how Dawn was strong through all the things that were going on in her life and how she didn't let things bother her. I liked how it was a mystery as to what would happen next. One reason I choose this book was because the author’s other books were really good too. Some of his other books are: “Kissing the Rain”, “Lucas”, “Road of the Dead”, and “Being”. I would recommend this book even if you haven’t read his other ones. This was an easy and funny read of 199 pages.

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Isn’t getting big packages in the mail exciting? It was for Clay…until he found out what was in it. Clay was just a high school student who was at the time, struggling to accept the fact that, due to his friend’s suicidal death, his friend was never coming back. When he opened the package that was addressed to him, he only found seven tape cassettes with a number on each side of each tape, adding up to the number thirteen. As he listened to each of the tapes, he listened to his friend explain all the events leading up to her death.

This book was so touching; it will haunt me for the rest of my life. I would like to recommend this book to everyone because it was so amazing, but it could also be disturbing to some people. It evokes some strong emotions such as: anger, sadness, happiness, ECT. But over all, the book was beyond five star criteria.