Review: #Not Ready to Die - Cate Carlyle

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Review: #Not Ready to Die - Cate Carlyle - October 2019

One of the weird things that I love to read about and am fascinated with is school shootings, more so as I think about some of the cliques and the way a high school can be and if you don't fit into their boxes you are identified as a weirdo and sometimes being bullied can push you to an extreme - either suicide or acting out and shooting those who harmed you one way or another. The other thing is that I feel when I read these books is that I am lucky to live in New Zealand where guns aren't a common household item as I assume if they were then we would be like the US and having many school shooting attacks. In #Not Ready to Die by Cate Carlyle which is Book #2 of 2021 read we meet Ginny who is named after Ginny Weasley - daughter of an Editor and a Librarian and Kayla aka Barbie. They are in their homeroom when shots first start ringing out "pop, pop, pop" and the rest of the class is screaming or in shock. Kayla and Ginny will rise and be the leaders and try and settle the class and help the wounded and form a strong bond that will last after the bell rings. Unlike other school shooting books, this one was different as it focused on a single classroom during a lockdown and the wait till they are saved. I also found it interesting to see how different people react in these situations from the jocks to cheerleaders to the averages to the nerds and outsiders.

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