Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - Suicide Notes

So yeah! I got done this book today!

Pros: I flew through this book like no other
I related with a lot of things
I'm glad Jeff had a sense of humor throughout the entire book.
These characters had personalities

Cons: But was Jeff likable? Not really.

He was played a victim when he literally did the same thing to Sadie. Man also kissed his best friends boyfriend unconsensually.

If anything? Karma's a bitch. If you ask me.
That whole thing with Sadie and Rankin wasn't the best to sit through. It was pretty rough.

Got a little teary-eyed, but I expected to sob.

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dark emotional funny sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"I can't wait," I said as I stood up. "Oh, and by the way, you need a haircut." As I turned to leave, I saw him reach up and touch his hair. Score one for Jeff, I thought as I shut the door behind me.

After that I had to go see old Cat Poop. The first thing I noticed was that something about him looked different. "You got a haircut," I said once I realized what it was."

I wanted him to say that I'd been right about his needing to deal with his hair, but instead he launched right into therapy time.

All in all, it was a pretty good day. For one thing, I got Cat Poop to cut his hair, which I think is a totally huge achievement.

"I'm interested in hearing what you think," said Cat Poop.
I waited a minute before I answered. "What I think is that the goatee you're trying to grow looks ridiculous.," I said.
He looked surprised. Then he glanced at the mirror that hangs on one of the walls. "See?" I said. "Honesty isn't so great, is it?"

Cat Poop (who by the way shaved off the goatee, so that's another point for me).

I am so sick of the now-standard witty, snarky, constantly sarcastic main character in YA. It's one of the few things that makes me DNF a YA book (because this trope is almost like some weird YA-exclusive thing). I didn't hate it this time though because considering this book's subject matter, it comes off more like a coping mechanism and a way to deflect so that the MC would never have to talk about himself. It works. And it's actually funny (most YA books fail to be funny with this kind of MC, it just comes off as annoying).

One thing that greatly shocked me was the surprise sexual content. I don't read much YA but the ones I've read so far don't have any sort of sexual content. But this one was a shock. I get that it's important to the MC's development but in a young adult book... that's, you know... targeted towards a demographic of young people, probably around ages 12-18... sexual content is not appropriate. Maybe for people aged 15-18 but there are still kids that are 12-14 that will read this. I also don't like sexual content in my books so this really took down the rating from 4.5 to 4.

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challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

This was nothing like I had expected this book to be. The content was an extremely hard read and not in a good way. This book sexualized young teens and mentions rape as more of a sexual encounter rather than what it was, rape. The adults characters in the book brush it off and never take the incident seriously.
Apart from the sexual content the book didn’t go on to talk about mental health in very much depth as one would expect when picking up this book.
Overall just disappointing.

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