Old feelings of anxiety and fear immediately bubble over inside her, but it all comes to a standstill when a ghost from her past walks into the interview room and forces her to remember a teenage broken heart, too. One of only a handful of survivors of that tragic day and back in her hometown for a documentary interview, Olivia ‘Liv’ Arias might have spent the past decade of her life trying to escape her past, but the moment she steps onto her old high school grounds, she is reminded of the night she spent cowering in a janitor’s closet, listening to two classmates massacre fellow students all around her. We meet the characters on the twelve-year anniversary of two gunmen walking into their high school prom and opening fire. “I’m back in the town that thinks I’m a hero when I wasn’t, talking to some reporter about stuff I wish I could forget, and standing here with the girl I almost got killed-and I still don’t know what to say to her.” A powerful story that both moved and enraptured me-beautifully written and infused with the perfect mix of emotion and steam-this book was absolutely everything I didn’t know I was looking for when I randomly picked it from an endless lineup of possibilities, quickly becoming a truly unforgettable reading experience. It’s not every day that you find a book that affects you so deeply and so completely that you’re not really sure how to process anything else for a while, let alone move on from it, so when it happens, the only thing you can do is immediately flip back to the beginning and start again.
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