![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing excuses Leonard’s intentions and plans – NOTHING – but there is a great deal of sadness that I felt and feel that he arrived at that point to begin with, and I was just socked with an almost-exhaustion when the almost-ending came and things started happening. The young adult novel Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock depicts the day 18-year-old Leonard Peacock plans to carry out a murder-suicide. There was a point that I had to stop and just cry for Leonard, for what he had been through, for what he was currently going through, for how easily he had slipped through the cracks of life, for how easily it would have been for someone to show him an extra bit of kindness and maybe that could have changed something. No spoilers here, but Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock is one of the most powerful books I have read. I believe that the tone of the book changed as well. In some way, my feelings about Leonard morphed into something different. And everything sort of changed for me at that point. While the book progressed throughout the day – Leonard’s birthday – as he farewell’d and goodbye’d – I wondered so often what on earth Asher Beal had done to make Leonard despise him so…and then I found out. ![]()
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