Tenderness

Title: Tenderness

Author: Robert Cormier

Puffin Books, 1998

I have had my students read this novel a few times on the B-course. No major complaints have been heard of so I expect many think it is at least okay, if not fantastic. I quite like it myself. It is a bit quirky and I like the idea of a psychopath teenager's plans of murder and mayhem being foiled due to his one un-selfish act in life.