Right+Behind+You


 * Use this page to comment on Gail Giles's //Right Behind You//, if that was the book you read.**

For the idependent study, I read //Right Behind You// by Gail Giles. This book is about a boy who sets another kid on fire when he was nine, and it talks about his life after the event. The book first explains why he set the other kid on fire, then his life at the mental hospital, and then when he moves from Alaska to Indiana and then to Texas. At first I didn't think that I was going to like the book but when I started reading it I was surprised to find that I actually enjoyed it. The book was well written and it kept me on the edge of my seat. From reading the description on the back of the book, I was prepard to read a really strange and scary book. But after reading the first couple of chapters, I found that this was not that type of a book. Gail Giles explained everything really well, it was almost like I could picture what was going on. The best part of the book was when he got to act like a regular teenager. That was one of my favorite parts because it seemed more realistic. The only part of the book that I didn't like, or could go back and forth on, was the ending. I didn't like how it was almost like a cliff hanger. It was a cute ending but at the same time I think that it could have been written better. 1201745346

i also read this book and i thought it was really good. i enjoyed reading this book because it always kept you reading and so many things were going on. i agree with kathryn i could also picture every thing that was going on it was like she was painting a pictre through her words. the part i liked was when he met this girl named sam that he could really get along with becase she had almost gone through the same thing he did ( rehab and the getting through the pain of it all) but she had a drinking problem. also i agree with her that i did not like the ending it left to many things open. oi thought she could have came up with some other way to end it or she could have ended it in a way that you were not able to make up so many posible things that could happen on your own. it was a good ending but i kind of hop she writes a sequel to show what happens next.1201918354