Abigail Dean's new novel Day One is one of those books that has a potentially intriguing premise, but fails massively in execution. This meandering tale of a school shooting doesn't spare the emotionally charged, triggering details ... but it doesn't spare much about anything else either. This book is overwrought with unnecessary details - it just tries to do too much and loses the plot time and time again. There are periods in this story when Dean does get to the point, and when she does, this story is engaging and compelling, but the rest of the story failed to hold my attention & the book became a chore to pick up.