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Book Review: Expelled (JustMyThoughts)

Expelled
    - James Patterson ( Author)

Being expelled gives us a bad feeling, specially to the ones who are not guilty and the very tag of being expelled could be dangerous for their undetermined future. Theo ( Thoedore Foster ) feels the same when someone posts an offensive image from his secret twitter account and gets him ( and others too ) expelled at the very end of session so that they are even deprived of giving in the final exams and have to attended their junior year again.
 
It is the story of a bunch of teenagers ,tagged delinquents for the actions that they claim they didn’t do. The story starts with an approach that the kids got expelled for the offensive fun they did but going through the course of time, the story ends at a very serious note with many deep secrets hidden by the higher authorities.
 
      Seeing their dreams getting crushed due to a false accusation, Theo took the responsibility to hunt the truth and bring it in front of the World. One final question, what would you do if you found out who  that person was, would you ensure they get punished for their deeds or forgive them !!?
Well, it’s all in this book  .
Moments of epiphany changes the course of novel
During the whole read, I had a constant thought, why does the title says , “Getting  kicked out of school is the best thing that ever happened to HER” when the whole read is written from a male narration! Well, you would know how this expulsion and the  events following it  liberates Sasha from a jail she was living in.  She got off the bad life she was in and lived Happier.
Theo's main goal in the novel was to prove himself innocent so that he would be withdrawn from the label of Expulsion and in this way he could get his scholarship for college easier. Jude, his friend who got expelled without being guilty too, first takes it easy and do not show much intent to prove themself innocent but later, when he experiences how it would be affecting their future prospect of working for their dreams, he became dedicated for the task too. Initially Jude was more amused by the idea of having 3 weeks longer summer vacation :D
The hunt for culprit begins and they approach anyone they felt , could help them in their task. During this duration, Theo missed being in school terribly but what was more hurting was , they were being treated like accused and were being ignored by people .

 
                 ( from google images)

The revelation is shocking, the culprit is one of these expelled ones but why did he do what he did ! The reason redirects the purpose of all the scouting down of facts and the events following this wont allow you to put the book down.
The book is adventures , with the energy and craziness of teens , with a very strong motive ( which gets stronger and stronger as the hidden facts unfold) and the desperateness to achieve what they thought with a pushing force of having already messed-up lives.

The whole story is like a detective's search with a tinge of romance and the teens bustling energies for a mission to accomplish! The book is Fun, Adventurous and Dynamic !

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Comments

  1. SThankiMarch 27, 2021 at 2:02 AM

    I like how you've narrated itz while not giving any spoilers away !! Keep writing 💜

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