After the heaviness of Poisonwood, I ripped through this book in a day. This is another YA.
In this book, a high school boy receives a mysterious package of 7 cassette tapes (what are those?). When he pops in the first tape, he hears the voice of a girl he once kissed as she explains why she killed herself.
I go back and forth on whether or not I like this book. I think it's probably good that kids are reading it, because it does a good job of showing how little things can make a big impact on teens. But, it irritated me at times that this girl who committed suicide is so torn apart by little tiny things and blames a lot of people for her decision to kill herself. Can you really blame someone who says you have the nicest ass of the Freshman class? I mean, how terrible is that, really?
It was a very quick read and pretty interesting. I guess if you've got a day and an interest, I would read this.
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