Full of sadness and rage, this timely narrative cuts to the heart of the gun debate and school shootings with a scalpel of words ... This is novel that acts like mirror; it shows you society with love and great insight into what makes us tick, but also with brutal honesty and under a stark, unwavering light.
The questions and agony that Rickstad exposes as he rips off a bandage over the escalation of U.S. mass shootings, connect to relatively simple actions in the novel. The sneaky part about powerful fiction, though, is that the reader may experience an echo of what a skillful plot and relatable characters bring to life.
Rickstad’s powerful story is a ticking timeclock of a thriller that breaches new territory by virtue of its boldness ... Not only is it a brave exploration of a nightmare that has been realized by far too many families but a call to action for a society that has been largely paralyzed in the collective aftermath.
