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| Inexcusable | 
 enlarge | Author: Chris Lynch
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 55817
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1416939725
EAN: 9781416939726
ASIN: 1416939725
Publication Date: May 8, 2007
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Product Description
"I am a good guy. Good guys don't do bad things. Good guys understand that no means no, and so I could not have done this because I understand." Keir Sarafian knows many things about himself. He is a talented footballplayer, a loyal friend, a devoted son and brother. Most of all, he is agood guy. And yet the love of his life thinks otherwise. Gigi says Keir has donesomething awful. Something unforgivable. Keir doesn't understand. He loves Gigi. He would never do anything tohurt her. So Keir carefully recounts the events leading up to that onefateful night, in order to uncover the truth. Clearly, there has been amistake. But what has happened is, indeed, something inexcusable.
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 Unreliable Narrator November 13, 2008
Oh good golly! This book is hard to get through! Keir is the most unreliable narrator ever. The book is told in the perspective of a trouble making, drug taking, RAPIST.
I think Chris Lynch did a good job letting the villin tell the story. Keir believes he's a good guy. At moments the reader thinks he is also. You have to read between the lines and try to see the scenes from the outside to recognize how awful Keir really is.
It was highly disturbing to me that Keir seemed so unaware of what he was. I think that was the idea of the book. You really can't rely on the story-teller.
 Excellent read October 29, 2008
I picked this book up and couldn't put it down until the last page. The character struggle for understanding and viewpoint and denial and finally acceptance was outstandingly portrayed.
Is it really Inexcuseable? October 23, 2008
Keir, a senior in high school who seems to be the ideal "cool kid". He parties, drinks, does drugs, plays on the football team, and has all the friends. His whole life is turned upside down for a bit when he accidentally cripples an opposing team player at a football game. He was so well liked people really made nothing of it. But something he does can never really be something just let go of. He is accused of raping the girl he loves, gigi. She is the one to accuse him saying it was his fault and she could never love him after doing that. Follow Keir as he tries to prove his innocence and show everyone that he is not a bad guy. It was a great book i think that it really turns the table on stories of iffy topics like rape. also it follows the accused rapist which is great because its really just his side of the story and what people are thinking of him after the whole incedent. It's a really good book if you like weird stories that really change the way things are seen and from a first person view. -Chris Powell
 It sucked! July 27, 2008
This book was awful. I was really excited about it because people told me if I liked Speak, I would like this. It was almost the worst book I've ever read - I despised the main character. What an idiot! Seriously, when you're a senior in high school you need to grow up and not be a loser. I'm sure Gigi (no comments on her name) felt like she was talking to a brick wall most of the story. Don't bother buying this book. If anyone told you that Speak and Inexcusable were built along the same lines...the only thing those two books have in common is rape. Speak is a much better investment.
Fabulous young adult (or old adult) read December 1, 2007
The novel opens with the haunting first line "The way it looks is not the way it is" - whoa! Keir is a graduating high school senior with a best-friend/dad, and two sisters. He drinks way too much, is liked by everyone, and is a self proclaimed good guy. Between Keir narrating his final year of school and giving a brief bio on his life for our sake, he fills the reader in with his current situation - which is shady at best. Without revealing too much of the plot, he is alone, with the girl he loves, defending his good guy status. Again, WHOA!
This book is spooky, creepy, and intriguing all over the place. The best part about it is the reader hardly realizes how creepy and what a thriller the novel actually is until the ending. The author's choice of telling the story from Keir's first person perspective is amazing, and really shapes the book. All of the character development, insight, emotions, and appeal are completely based on the reader's interpretation of the events and the story. I wouldn't say it's a nail biter, it's much too subtle for that...but it is a page turner all the way.
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