Thoughts & Prayers
Category: Fiction
Author: Lee Anne Post
Genres: Fiction, Gun Violence, Mass Shooting, School Shooting
Publisher: Milford House Press
Straight-A student Lily Jeong, misunderstood by helicopter parents and ignored by thoughtless classmates, sneaks her manipulative boyfriend into Rockwell High believing he’ll get revenge for her recent public humiliation. But he breaks his promise that no one will get hurt, and minutes later, fourteen people are dead. Plagued by guilt, Lily invents one lie after another to evade arrest. While devastated survivors grieve, investigators make slow progress identifying the accomplice, and class president Keisha Washington—Lily’s…
Lily is in love with a boy. He is her escape from her strict Korean family. He says he will help her get even with the people that have hurt her. All she must do is open a door for him at school. That is when the world turns upside down for her and everyone else at Rockwell Highschool.
This book is fast paced and written in multiple points of view. The characters are well developed. The title of the book is so appropriate since we hear it so many times after a school shooting. Legal action is needed more than words. This is an emotional book and at times hard to read. I cannot imagine if one of my grandchildren were in such a situation. I think everyone should read this book.
