Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

This review is long overdue. It's so long overdue, that I don't even know what I really want to say about this book.

For one, I would like to say that I loved this book, but I didn't love it enough to give it five stars instead of four. There was only one minor thing that made me give it four stars: the footnotes. To me, footnotes in a story just throws me off (I am looking at you, An Abundance of Katherines). This story, Forgive me Leonard Peacock didn't have a lot of foootnotes, but when they would some would come, they would be long and possibly go over into the next page. At first I only ran into maybe two, and I vowed to give this book a 4.5, but when I came across another, I was all, “Fuck it I'm giving it a four!”

That's not to say that I didn't enjoy them though. They were a nice addon, just not enjoyable on my end.

The characters were one of my favorite parts in the story. I loved reading about them, especially Herr Silverman. I wish I had a teacher like him; someone who cared about the students and went out their way to help them. Leonard, too, was a fun person to know. He was always brutally honest in everything he said, but was he like that always, or just because he was hurt? And his mom. I did not like that woman one bit. I just wanted to smack her, or for Leonard to smack her, but you don't get everything you want in life.
I don't know where I'm going with this review. If I had wrote it the day after, it would be more well thought out, but since it's been a while, it's all weird and stuff. What I want to say is that, in the end, this is one of the most brutally honest books I have ever read in my seventeen years of living. It made me feel things I have never felt before or care for a character like I have never cared before (well, besides in Perks and Aristotle & Dante). This has easily become one of my favorite books ever, without a five-star rating, too. It's just that good.