For someone who has thought way too much about death years ago, I was excited to read what Gayle Forman came up with. I wanted to get this book as soon as it came out. School and Time and the lack of money didn't quite allow it.
Well, anyway. I just got it recently and was, still, excited to read this novel.

The story line was good. I liked how the protagonist was the dead girl's best friend, the other half of this duo. For someone like me, who calls their best friend the other half - even the better half, I couldn't imagine what I'd do on Cody's place.

Death, in general, is such a painful topic. Reading about how a girl decides to die might sometimes even be easier than to read about a girl who has to live without her best friend, who has commited suicide.

The way the story went one was great. Forman's writing was beautiful and full with emotions, which made the reading to go so fast.

On the back of my book, a quote by Chbosky - who's the author of one of my favorite books - says that Forman gives "us an unflinchingly honest potrait of the bravery it takes to live after devasting loss". And right he is.

The setting, same as the characters, were great. For anyone who rants about the chances to have a guy who's totally into IT and helping you and about a hot guy helping you out and falling for you, they probably should consider that we read books to feel something and to escape reality. Not to effing bump into the next reality while we were desperately trying to escape one.

I like contemporaries because they seem so real, they have topics, like suicide, which are so close to reality, and still we can escape because fiction stays fiction.

Overall, this one's a great one. Probably it's not the best idea to give this to a suicidal person, but on the other hand, maybe this one can help such a person.

After all, those struggles and those feelings are real, they are happening in the real world. It's the way Forman created characters and this setting which may lead us to pay more attention and to forgive each other.

She also created so many bondings which are real. A friend who's all shiny and popular and then one who's not? Maybe a cliché in books, but those relationship exists.

A cute boy who could have every girl he wants? Well, maybe sometimes such boys fall for those who are stubborn and not easy to get (not by purpose! Just like Cody is someone who doesn't show interest in Ben). Actually, that IS happening, too.

Tricia and Cody? There are daughters who call their moms by their first names. Sometimes that mother-daughter-bond just isn't there.

What I'm trying to say, is that Forman discusses so many different topics in this book while Meg's death still is the main point of this story. That's probably why I love her books. Why I loved this one. The way it is full with emotions makes it easy to feel the characters' loss and the problems they have to face.

However, the ending - the epilogue - stays the most beautiful part.
The last two lines are heart-warming.

Definetely, a great book!

Forman, you did a great job on this one.