I really want to give it 5 stars, but I just can't. I don't think I would introduce this book to anyone as "it's amazing!" but I would absolutely, without-pause present it as "it's really good." (All my reviews originate on Goodreads, by the way...if a little context helps.)
I don't know how it would feel to read this as a seriously depressed person who has thought about killing themselves. But as a person in a state of flux that sometimes feels pretty miserable about themselves, I enjoyed the company. And it made me laugh. And I really wanted to see the movie. So that's something. It's borderline literature with a capital-L. It get's pretty deep, but a book about suicide is likely go there. But it was all pretty believable. And I loved the different perspectives. These four characters are so different, and you wonder if they really would experience it all together in the way that they do, and I was kind of skeptical but I believed it anyway. It just worked. It was messy, but "der" that's life (now who is getting too deep?).
Anyway, if don't know anything about this book - it's about four people that end up on the roof of a building to jump off, and convince each other not too (obviously, or it would have been a very short novel). And it's just about how to keep going once you've so committed to making the decision to jump, and then changing your mind to not. What do you do? Anyway. This is just about what these four did. And it was really interesting. Like, make me want to study psychology if this is what it's about...
SO yeah, I'd say it was really good.
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