Courtney C. Stephens is the author of this fascinating novel. Rickman High school Junior, Alexi Littrell, tells the story. Her high school is where the majority of the book takes place as well as other various locations. These include the Littrell house, the church, which is where the Littrell family is when we first meet them, since, they are attending the funeral of Mrs. Lennox, a member of Alexi’s mom’s prayer group for a long time, and The Lennox house. I would say that the setting of Rickman High has a tremendous effect on the story. The High School setting represents the challenges the kids (especially Alexi) face, especially the challenge of coping with things like death and still attending school. Alexi appears to be the only person…show more content… We do obtain a small clue of where the incident happened in one of her dreams, when one of the boys in her dream says, “it all happened on his patio.” (Page 73). I would say that the one action the author has done to keep me “hooked” on this novel was her attention to detail. Her descriptions of the various scenes and sets is part of what makes this novel riveting. One example of conflict in this story is Alexi’s coping with her secret. This struggle is what makes her, her. That is why I chose this specific conflict as my example. It defines her. Although there are many more examples of conflicts, for example, Bodee’s coping with his mother’s death, but that one doesn’t define him the way Alexi’s does. Alexi’s actually seems like it is overpowering her to the point where she is scratching her neck and where she isn’t sleeping real soundly and she won’t even talk to Heather, her best friend about it. Bodee is the only person in the novel, so far, who knows about her neck wounds. Hardly anybody knows about her counting, which she uses to help her sleep when she counts the things on her air vent before bed, doing this also helps her try not to scratch her
