Enjoyed it

Being a high school teacher this book resonated with me how cruel children are taught to be to fit in. How many marginalized children need to be hurt in a country over run by hate. Bullying should never be tolerated or normalized. Safe places should always be provided for children that are both the bullied and the bullies. There are reasons for bullies and they are often hurting also and have no safe place to be anything but a bully. Some schools are changing, but bullying still continues. I have seen where school students are a part of day long team building activities, with mixed groups, and they have had wonderful outcomes. This has been done at the high school level. I believe it should be started at the young 4th & 5th grade levels, where their place in the school identity begins. It is important to start young teaching children it is ok to be who you are and that they are taught empathy, because things don’t always seem like they are.

Extremely drug out and boring.

I could not put this book down! We’ve all seen bullying and it’s effect. I’ve always done my best to stop it, in part, by showing the bully out to be what he or she is…

I enjoyed this a lot! It is definitely not what you think it is!

Not my favorite JP book but would read it again.

Wow, what a novel!

One of those books you hate to finish but cannot put it down. Heartbreaking subject matter written so readable you feel something with each character. Beautiful character depth and relatability. Outstanding read. Highly recommended.

This book was incredibly depressing. I’m a big fan of Ms Picault’s writing but I struggled with much of this book because of its existential nature. As a parent I found it very difficult to except the premise that these parents were often so blind to the terrible difficulties their children were in and that they basically chose to ignore the issues. Additionally, the premise put forward by the expert psychiatrist during the trial rang false in my view. Basically I felt that unlike many of her other work this book, although relevant and timely, missed the mark.

Always a fast read lots of facts and in dept with all of her books