"Send" by Patty Blount (E2)

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Send

By Patty Blount

# Pgs: 304

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Overview

It's been five years since I clicked Send.
Four years since I got out of juvie.
Three months since I changed my name.
Two minutes since I met Julie.
A second to change my life.

All Dan wants for his senior year is to be invisible. This is his last chance at a semi–normal life. Nobody here knows who he is. Or what he's done. But on his first day at school, instead of turning away like everyone else, Dan breaks up a fight. Because Dan knows what it's like to be terrorized by a bully—he used to be one.

Now the whole school thinks he's some kind of hero—except Julie. She looks at him like she knows he has a secret. Like she knows his name isn't really Daniel...

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Review:

Okay, I'll admit it, Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough should've been the book that I'd blog about next. I'm just having some trouble getting into the book. Unlike the problem with that book though, Send by Patty Blount I read immediately and finished around ten last night.

It's a book about bullying, and the consequences of your actions on others as well as on yourself. Another realistic fiction, but this one was actually ok. It kind of makes the reader think about what the people around them are hiding.

I don't know if there's a second book, and if there is I don't know that I would read it. I was happy enough with the way this fictional piece ended. Not exactly a happy ending, but that's a good thing. Not all things in life end in happy endings, and sometimes it's difficult to find a book like this that demonstrates that. The main character, "Dan", is complex. In the story he tries his best to hide his family and make up for something he did earlier in life that affected another greatly. This story follows along as he tries to prove to himself that he still has some worth, despite the fact that he feels he cannot be forgiven for what he's done.

In the end this book begs the question on whether or not "Dan" deserved what he got earlier in life, and if by the end he is truly forgiven....

I recommend this book to someone who likes realistic fiction, or to those who like to think things like this through, to people who like to dissect books.