A review by gotoboston
Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman

3.0

This was a really, really weird book. Loved a lot of the psychology stuff with the kids and how they coped. The politics and all of that stuff was typical and felt realistic. Then this book takes a sharp turn for the weird and the slightly ridiculous. I liked some of the elements and the detailed history, but quite frankly I stopped caring about the explanations towards the end. It didn't really feel like a twist too me since it was just a little too unbelievable, and I honestly would have preferred this book if it had stuck to what I thought it would be about, a deep psychological analysis of the motivations and psychology of a mass shooter and also the psychology and recovery of the students in the school. There was some of that stuff, certainly, but not enough of it and it gets largely drowned out by the politics and the conspiracy theories.