Kyle's Reviews > Suicide Watch

I don’t understand how this book isn’t more popular. More people need to read this, dammit!

This... this is the book The Fault in Our Stars, All the Bright Places, and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl should’ve been. Seriously, it has opened my eyes to looking past overhyped nonsense. I even went and changed a few ratings of the aforementioned, because I realize I was too lax in my reviews.

Suicide Watch is a quiet and honest (without being preachy) novel about dealing with (and coping with) life when it seems all is lost. It’s about finding people and the things worth sticking around for— and it’s not an easy book to get through. These are legitimate issues, and I teared up quite a few times. The books that do that are the ones that hit a little too close to home. It’s just so uncomplicated (in the way it excludes pointless tropes and plot points, and unnecessary gimmicks) and real, unlike the other novels I mentioned above, because so many are struggling— and there are websites like the one found in Suicide Watch. And it’s sickening and painful to know this. People, especially teens, need outlets for bettering themselves when they feel the inescapable pull of loneliness and self-defeat. I just hope that if they’re on the edge of giving up, that they think a bit longer, and find something or someone to stick around for.

In the end, this is a heartbreaking, profound, life-affirming book.

***For anyone who needs to, TALK to someone. You’re worth it.***
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-TALK [8255])