Review: Close Your Eyes - Nicci Cloke
It wasn't till I opened the
first page of this book that I realized
it was going to be a school shooting novel. I,
however, am a fan of the school
shooting novels as I find them so powerful and emotive as I am the type of
person who would to reach out to the shooter and befriend them before things
turned bad to the point of no return. Close Your Eyes tells the story of a
group of friends at Southfield High School. There are the twins Aisha and Ash, Remy,
Gemma, Elise,
and Eli. Elise and Eli are the last two to join their group of friends, and things seem to be going well
except this last few months, their group
of friends have been separating and spending time in twos or elsewhere and
strange things have been happening. Each
of the friends is going through their problems, but we discover that a couple of them, their problems run deeper than anyone
ever realized. We have Aisha who
has been spending a lot of time lately
partying and sneaking out, only to have
her life exposed to a Gossip Girl sort of
blog. Eli's sister had a breakdown at
their old school which forced them to move,
and Elise's family went through a similar situation to Eli's which makes sense
to why the pair connected. I have to admit the last few chapters of this book; I did not see that coming. When the
truth was revealed, I have to say part of me was blown away, but the other part
of me could see how everything had eventually built up to this moment and showed
what a tipping of the scales could do as desperation , injustice and a feeling
like we have nothing can lose can push us all into a spiralling oblivion.
Just think - what would you do if you had nothing to lose and the only
consequence was death which you knew was coming anyway.Would you be like one of
the characters in this book and either commit suicide or would you be like the
other and shoot up the school? Close Your
Eyes by Nicci Cloke was a thought-provoking,
and emotional rollercoaster of a YA read.
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