A review by tyrshand
Break My Heart 1,000 Times by Daniel Waters

4.0

This book was hovering at five stars for me most of the way through, but the very end brought it down for me. It's funny, I think for me, the story would have been better as an exploration of the world after the Event and the ghosts and how people related to them without the teacher plot. If the teacher plot had remained, it would have been fine with me if it remained a background mystery that was resolved at the end, rather than being at the forefront of the plot. Also, I had a really hard time believing that none of them would tell ANYONE. The teacher was obviously acting unstable and even if no one believed he was a killer (not a spoiler -- it's in the book description) people would still take action against him for menacing students in ANY way and certainly some of the consequences he threatened them with are not valid. For instance, you are perfectly within the law to take pictures of the outside of people's houses -- if it can be seen from the street it is not an invasion of privacy. ESPECIALLY when the teacher is going on about it really loudly while grabbing a student painfully on school grounds.

So yeah, fantastically interesting world-building, some interesting explorations of the relationship between the living and the dead.