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This book combines good character development, especially in Connor, with a really moving and heart wrenching concept. It takes the secret hidden idea of abortion and forces you to look at it in broad daylight. It’s a truly tragic story. But yet in it we see Connor, this teen who is really what we might call an at-risk child: violent, angry. But throughout this book as he faces trial after trial, each trial forcing him to take a moral stand and act upon his beliefs. And it changes him: the way he thinks, the man he is. So we’re seeing this boy become a man and decide things for himself about reality, all the while watching the echoes of a reality that while in the book is lived out in the open, in real life is often pushed to the sidelines, designed for us to forget what it is we’re actually doing.