Red Heart Tattoo

The part I like about this book is When Roth Takes her down at The Homecoming dance.. Even though when the bomb goes off and Roth goes into the school to help the kids in the school and finds a red headed and he can't see the face he knows it is Morgan and he helps her before the staircase falls and crushes her more.

Red Heart Tattoo by Lurlene McDaniel – Review

I have read countless Lurlene McDaniel books and have loved nearly all of them, Red Heart Tattoo has me teetering on the edge of like and dislike. A high school bombing is a tough subject to write a novel on, however I think it could have been done a bit better. The novel was short, too short to properly develop the characters. The characters were pretty cliché. A popular girl with a jock boyfriend and a bad boy who’s in love with the popular girl, I’ve read many books with the same concept, but this ‘love triangle’ was torn apart by tragedy. This is what set this common love theme apart from all other novels, they had to figure out a way to get over the devastating event that has taken place.
The writing didn’t seem very mature, these are high school students, and high school students can have a mature voice. When teenagers text they don’t talk like “WHERE R U?” “TLK 2 U SOON”, we can write actual words in a text message. The language in this book seemed like it was written for younger children but with older characters.
I would give this novel a 3.5/5. If it had been longer and more potential for character and plot development, I think I would have enjoyed it a bit better.

Red Heart Tattoo is a new addition to Lurlene McDaniel's masterpieces. I've always loved her writing style, and the way that she has an eye for grief and hard issues. She addresses them head-on and with characters that I can't help but care about. This book is no different.
At first it is a bit confusing because there are several rotating point of views, but I quickly got a handle on the personality and voices, and found myself caring, despising, cringing, and rooting for the different characters. It may seem that it's hard to encapsule a voice and several lives in so few pages, but I think she did a superb job.
Morgan is probably my favorite character, and the one that I connected with the most. It surprised me a bit because I have never been that popular, but she had a personality that I couldn't help but like.
Roth was also a very developed character, and more like someone that I would have been found hanging out with in school. I liked the different layers that were peeled back and how I got to know and care for his character.
The pace never lets up and Red Heart Tattoo kept me flipping until I reached the satisfying conclusion.