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No Gun Intended
No Gun Intended follows seventeen-year-old Ian Moss, who, after years of homeschooling, is encouraged by his mother and his therapist to attend his final year of high school in person to prepare him for college and adulthood. Though excited to embark on this new journey, Ian soon discovers the difficulty of trying to maintain his mental health as he deals with the politics and societal aspects of high school. And as a new millennium approaches and graduation nears, things take a dark turn for the worst once Ian shows up to school with an assault rifle.
This offbeat work of fiction serves as a disturbing reminder of the reality society faces regarding gun violence and the role of mental health, simultaneously providing an entertaining view of an adolescent fish-out-of-water experience.
This offbeat work of fiction serves as a disturbing reminder of the reality society faces regarding gun violence and the role of mental health, simultaneously providing an entertaining view of an adolescent fish-out-of-water experience.
286 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 21, 2023
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March 4, 2023
What did I just read?
This is a terrible way to represent the mentally ill. Not all mentally ill people are violent, and in fact less than 10% of people with his condition even show violent behavior. I'd even be wiling to say "Oh, this is about the one who is." Except every character in the book is the same. They all suck, I found the sessions with his psychiatrist laughable, and really, there was nothing redeeming about this book. And it happened on the turn of a dime.
Frankly, this book seems like an over the top excuse to shit on women, teenagers, and the mentally ill. And talk about blowing people's faces off.
Not. A. Fan.
This is a terrible way to represent the mentally ill. Not all mentally ill people are violent, and in fact less than 10% of people with his condition even show violent behavior. I'd even be wiling to say "Oh, this is about the one who is." Except every character in the book is the same. They all suck, I found the sessions with his psychiatrist laughable, and really, there was nothing redeeming about this book. And it happened on the turn of a dime.
Frankly, this book seems like an over the top excuse to shit on women, teenagers, and the mentally ill. And talk about blowing people's faces off.
Not. A. Fan.
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