She Said Yes

She Said Yes

By Misty Bernall

Pages: 163

ISBN: 0743400526

Genre: Memoir

Setting: Colorado, Columbine High School, where two boys went on a shooting spree, killing 12 students and one teachers and injuring 21 others. The boys in the end took the guns on themselves and killed themselves.

This is the story of one of the students that was killed in the Columbine school shooting. It is told by her mother and re-lives the moments right before and after the death of Cassie Bernall. It was actually interesting to get the history of Nicole. You find out in the book that only a few years before Nicole was killed after being asked if she believes in God, with a gun to her head and saying yes, Cassie didn’t believe in God. If fact she was very deeply involved with witch craft. It was a startling change in the story that I wasn’t expecting. Her mother recalls her discovery of the involvement of months of hell and hatred from Cassie. I remember when Columbine happened. It was scary, for years afterward and I am sure today this event changed everything. I remember going on lock down after a gun was found on a person in school. I remember my sister being pulled out of school for the last 3 months of the school year because a boy put her on the top of her hit list. This book brought to life the real people that are effected by one person’s decision.