Bang

By Barry Lyga

Book Overview

This is Where it Ends , Hate List , and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock readers will appreciate this heartbreaking novel about living with your worst mistake, from New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend, Aneesa, to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt the pain of his past. Because Sebastian knows exactly how to rectify his childhood crime and sanctify his past. It took a gun to get him into this. Now he needs a gun to get out. Unflinching and honest, Bang is the story of one boy and one moment in time that cannot be reclaimed, as true and as relevant as tomorrow's headlines. "Fans of 13 Reasons Why will find a lot to like in Lyga's latest." -- Entertainment Weekly

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316315508
• ISBN13: 9780316315500
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

Alright.

It didn’t really have the emotional effectiveness I thought it would have.

I could not put it down!

I loved this book cover to cover. From the second I read the back cove, until I finished the last word on the last page, I was hooked. Excellent writing and story. This was the first book I read from this author and I plan on reading some more of Mr. Lyga's work.

Great Book!

This is such a good book! Granted I like almost all the books I read. But Barry had touched on a sensitive among kids and teens today. He made me go on a roller coaster of emotions haha. But it is about a Teenage boy who had done something irreversible when he was very young and regrets it very much. Then He meets some chick that take his life for something of a spin (yeah, yeah, cheesy I know). He has to deal with people who know what he had done and with them treating him like poo. It was so good. There were some things that annoyed me, but there are always going to be those things. I would recommend this book to people who like to read about social issues more or less, or to anyone wanting to read a good book!