MixedThe Guardian\"Cullen’s experience covering school shootings is clear in his nuanced portraits of parents of victims, and survivors and their parents ... There’s no escaping the fact that Parkland has come out quickly, having been researched and written in less than a year. Cullen’s closeness to the students is, at times, a disadvantage. He concentrates so narrowly on the movement’s development that the broader political context rarely comes into focus ... The Parkland students’ prom was the same weekend as the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Texas – one of many contrasts that could have made the book a richer portrayal of the American gun debate as a whole, and provided a clearer view of the students’ political opponents. Parkland only documents what happened at prom, the strain of trying to celebrate a high-school milestone while still mourning lost friends ... Parkland’s insistence on hope, its deep identification with the movement, results in a book that feels smaller than Cullen’s previous work.\
