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Shattered

2002, Scott Wallens

3.4/5

The first hundred or so pages deal with Meena, Jeremy and Peter. The novel opens with Peter Davis having a nightmare. He dreams of six ten-year-old children, Meena, Jeremy, Danny, Jane, Karyn and Reed. They are asking for his help. In reality, he's in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. (Peter is a child of an inter-racial couple)Meena is an adopted Vietnamese child. Meanwhile some students are going to a party, and one of them, Mike, makes a homophobic remark about another football team's mascot. We find out the accident was about a month previous to the story. The accident was due to a drunk driver. Meena is at a party and keeps thinking about something that happened with a boy.She's attracted to a boy named Justin, but as he starts to kiss her she gets sick. Later, she's at a couple's house and it turns out she had kissed the woman's husband. That night he comes home early and rapes her (or just has sex with her, but it wasn't actually rape).Some hundred pages into the book another character, Danny, is brought up. He is seeking a psychiatrist and is on medication. There's a reference made to something that happened when Meena was ten, and a number of children being questioned. Jeremy is revealed to be gay. Peter is still thinking about some kind of “atrocity” he committed seven years earlier. There's also a reference made to his having a gun at the time.An interesting book with a lot of people who are having major emotional problems, and a whole lot of unanswered questions. There's still six more books to go in the series, though.
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