― Betty Culley, Three Things I Know Are True
The book Three Things I Know are True, involves a teenage girl accepting a real-life effect of nothing but nurses and doctors surrounding her, and in and outside her house after her brother accidentally shoots himself with a gun. 15-year-old Liv has an older brother, Jonah. Jonah has always been known as a daredevil, especially with his best friend Clay. Clay and Jonah were up in Clays attic when they found what was his dads gun. Not knowing it was loaded, Jonah was messing around and shot himself. Liv knew something bad had happened when all she heard was a single gun shot, for they live on a dead-end so its not common to ever hear the sound of a gun.
This book sucks a reader in with its desire to know if Jonah is going to be ok. While this book is full of lots of emotion, it has a different writing style from books I’ve read. This book was written in Poetry and takes place in Maddigan Maine. Normally Poetry books are not for me, but the style was a different form allowing open connections instead of just full of rhyme hard to pick up a story.
I recommend this book to everyone. This book is an award-winning I feel all should give a read. The book is full of emotions and teaches an important lesson, allowing an understatement not to touch a gun without the consent of an adult because you never know when it may be loaded. This book was an easy read with the poetry scheme allowing a fast pace to the book.