Review: A suspenseful novel set in high school
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
A book of engaging characters and riveting scenes, Take Chances is more about finishing high school than about two incidences of school violence in Julie Bond’s life.  Julie cares deeply about her close friends who are dealing with difficult home environments (as she is) and she shepherds them carefully in their last days of high school.  Her flashbacks of a school shooting when she was five kept me tense knowing something was going to erupt during her senior year too.  The book was solidly in the viewpoint of a high school senior and her world, and it felt very authentic to me.  I’d recommend this book not only to young adults but to anyone who likes a suspenseful novel about high school students.