{"id":38712,"date":"2022-09-05T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38712"},"modified":"2022-09-05T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T23:56:30","slug":"review-of-the-lucky-ones-by-liz-lawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38712","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Lucky Ones, by Liz Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Lucky Ones<\/em><\/p>\n

by Liz Lawson<\/p>\n

Delacorte Press, 2020. 343 pages.
\nReview written December 12, 2020, from a library book<\/p>\n

The Lucky Ones<\/em> in this book are teens who survived a school shooting in their high school the previous year. The reader does learn they\u2019re not very lucky.<\/p>\n

We follow two teens with a very different relationship to the tragedy. May was in a closet when the shooting happened in the band room. Her twin brother, her favorite teacher, and several of her friends were killed. She stayed in the closet. After the tragedy, she kept lashing out at school, and was eventually asked to take a leave of absence and home school. Now it\u2019s second semester of the following school year and students from May\u2019s old high school have been moved to the two closest high schools. She\u2019s trying to go back to class. At least it\u2019s a new building.<\/p>\n

Zach\u2019s mother is the lawyer who took the case of the school shooter. And when that happened, he lost all his friends except one. Someone \u2013 Zach doesn\u2019t know it was May \u2013 has been vandalizing their house at night. But then a new girl shows up in class and smiles at him. <\/p>\n

It feels good to both May and Zach to find new romantic interest in someone. Then they find out who the other is.<\/p>\n

This is a tough book, dealing with so many awful emotions in the aftermath of a school shooting. It\u2019s terrible how many teens may relate to it. It\u2019s a well-written story, with both kids figuring out what\u2019s going on in their own heads and how to communicate and what\u2019s the best way to express all those mixed-up emotions. And not all the trauma happens before the story begins.<\/p>\n

This is a good story and does end with a note of hope, but it\u2019s not light reading.<\/p>\n

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