Hate List: Final Recap

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

     I have finally finished this novel.  It took me about a month to read all of it.  I am not a big reader and when we first got the news that we would be reading a pretty long novel I was kind of bummed out.  As soon as we started it felt kind of like a lame and boring story to me.  Once the book went into further detail and I started to get more interested.  I could not put the book down, I also took many notes over my readings too.  By taking notes over the text really helps me pass all the quizzes we had to take over the book.  The text was easy to comprehend once you can understand how the author writes.  I think that Jennifer Brown is a good writer and I would read another one of her books.

     As for the final parts of the book, the book got better towards the end because I knew the outcome of everything.  There were many surprises in the end too.  I did not know that Val would give a speech at Graduation.  I did not know that they brought the time capsule to graduation and would announce everything that everyone put in it.  The main thing that threw me off and got me curious was at the end when Valerie was leaving on a train.  As soon as I read that and realized that there was not that much text after that part in the story I was curious and wanted to know where she went.  The end of the book was good and it really gives you your own imagination about what happened at the end, because you can think that she got away from everything and found happiness somewhere else.  It gives you many thoughts and lets you end the book how you saw things in your head.