TBR Jar Review: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock - Matthew Quick
This was the latest pick of my TBR Jar, and while it was definitely better than the last book from the jar, I definitely had mixed feelings about it. It is about a young boy named Leonard Peacock, who is struggling to keep it together. On his 18th birthday he decides to kill a boy from school and then himself with his grandfather’s Nazi handgun. Before he shoots though, he wants to say goodbye to the few people who matter to him. We follow him throughout the school day, as he makes his goodbyes and slowly we figure out why he wants to kill that particular boy. As mentioned above I have mixed feelings about this book. First of all I absolutely detest foot notes! I don’t understand how anyone can think they will enhance the reading experience. Especially when they sometimes stretch over two pages. What?? It completely disrupts my flow in reading, and just bugs me to no end. I found it a little hard to get into the story, maybe because of the foot notes, maybe be...