Reviews with content warning for Sexual harassment - Suicide Notes

I love the sarcasm and character development in the book. I did not expect the plot twists, but i really liked it. Personally this book has a very interesting perspective and point of view that I haven’t seen that often. This book is all about recovering from suicide attempt, and understanding your feelings. Very eye opening and inclusive with LGBTQ+ characters.

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theo_the_newt's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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wiktoria_p's review against another edition

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I didn't know one could fit so many atrocious descriptions of

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sexual activities

in a book about KIDS in a psychiatric ward. In fact it contains so many of them, there wasn't enough space for any character development and accuracy of being in such a facility. [At least as far as I got.] It's so disgusting. I wish I could erase my memories of reading it. Maybe I'm overdramatic, but I cannot imagine who was targeted public for this one. Certainly not for children and neither for adults. What hit me the most is how terribly portraited are teenagers with mental issues-

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people whose the worst tragedy is going through heart problems and attempting suicide "cuz they feel like it".

Moreover it may be harmful due to beautifying act of killing oneself and treating sexual abuse as something normal.

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echo24's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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planetarysilver's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

rating: 4.5/5

i read this book in the span of 8 hours without planning to. once i got sucked in, i couldn’t stop until i finished. the plot twists were very well executed imo because i didn’t expect them at all, but they weren’t outlandish and they made sense in the story. i really enjoyed this book and i’m still thinking about it and about jeff and sadie and martha and all of them.

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the only reason i gave it a 4.5 is because of rankin; i understand why he was important in furthering the plot, but i wish it could have been done in a way that didn’t entail rankin basically molesting and attempting to rape jeff. or, if that part was kept, then i wish the author would have gone more into depth about it instead of just kind of brushing it off as “sexual assault but not” and then diving straight into jeff being gay. i don’t know if this is making sense, but i just mean that i wish that subplot had been done better.

anyway, i loved this book, and i definitely see it as one im going to come back to every once in a while just to see jeff and amanda and martha and sadie and juliet and bone and cat poop again :)

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