The Leaf Reader

"<br/>I liked this book for the most part, except for some of the profanity. Although the story was upsetting too because it reminded me of something that was recently in the news, where some kids were pointing, laughing and doing nothing while watching someone drown. <br/><br/>In the book, Andrea, the girl who is missing for a while, and Phoenix, one of the twins - rich, popular kid are with a group of friends who get all high and hopped up on drugs and they watch/let another kid that was with them die and then dump his body in another place. It was too much like this other incident I recently heard of in the news that was very upsetting and it saddens me that things like this don't only happen in books nowadays. <br/><br/>It was a book that brought out my deeper thinking and feeling side of things and I was just upset reading this story where some teenage kids let another kid die cause of drugs, cause they didn't want to get in trouble and what not, which a lot of good it did them cause they ended up going to the police, getting caught, turning themselves in and being arrested for it in the end.<br/><br/>It just makes me so sad and mad and everything reading this book and being reminded of how little some people care for others and how some people just don't care, are so selfish that they let others die. I don't understand how anyone can be so callous with someone else's life, the way they portrayed it in the book and it connected so well to the incident recently in the news."