Scanlines

only read this while i was on campus red or blue LOL.

Remember the recording of the congressman who shot himself on tv? I’m pretty sure you do if you’ve ever run across it. It’s heavy and something that you can distance yourself from but never really escape entirely. This book is based on that tape. Scanlines is one of the darkest books I’ve read in a long while. It’s realistic in the way that it accurately conveys depression and how it will follow you relentlessly throughout your life. Sometimes we see things or deal with issues that we are ill-equipped to deal with, and those things leave scars. Sometimes it takes a darker subject matter to truly convey the darkness and isolation some struggle with throughout their lives. Scanlines isn’t a story for everyone as it will take a certain level of understanding and ability to deal with the darker subject matter. Still, it feels like an important story nonetheless. I guess the most important thing to know is just to proceed with caution when reading this novella. It’s 4 stars for me.

Story has a slight dual timeline to it. We get journal entries from one individual who had witnessed the suicide tape and then the story of a how our characters handled it after seeing it. The majority of this story is told through Robby, our main character and how the video effected all those that saw it when the boys were in their late teens. This was a very heavy read and had so much packed into such a short amount of pages.