Nineteen Minutes
Nineteen Minutes is a novel written by Jodie Picoult.
I am not going to give away the ending or the main details but I will explain the main storyline.
It is a third person book that explores the lives of different people all living in the area of Sterling and are connected by one thing: A high school massacre.
You find out in the beginning of the book that there has been a shooting in the school of Sterling High, 9 kids were killed and one teacher. The twist is that the killer is none other than one of the students.
During the book each chapter either goes backward in time before the killing happened so you could see what happened to the killer to make him want to kill nine of his peers one of his teachers, it goes as far back as seventeen years even. It also shifts to after the killing happened so that you can see how his trial works out.
You alter between the different characters roughly every page and a half, and explore how they deal with the tragedy and also how they took part in the leading up to the decision of the Peter (The killer.) to shoot people in his school.
In the book you grow to love characters but then hate others, and sometimes even changing your mind when you find out about their past through the alteration of time.
It is a really powerful book that captures your attention greatly, it has alot of strong metaphoars and really makes you think. The description is also really well done.
I recommend it.
