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specificwonderland 's review for:
My Heart and Other Black Holes
by Jasmine Warga
I thought this was really interesting. I liked the vulnerability of the characters and the rural Americana setting in Kentucky. I guess I'm in a little "teenage suicide" thicket right now (don't send help, I simply don't wish to participate in the real world) and this was the best of them so far. Aysel was thoughtful and felt like someone I would have known in high school. FrozenRobot was a good male lead. I didn't like their secret toxic leaning on each other to follow through with their suicidal plans, but that's how it is sometimes: you make plans with people who aren't holding your best interest in mind because they're too immature (emotionally and more) to support the weight of the crippling depression and you're so lonely that you grab any connection, and it feels intoxicatingly like 'they really understand you' because you have depression (your defining characteristic) in common. I'm a grown-up and their problems didn't feel as small as some other teen books. I was able to emotionally connect to their feelings of failure and being outcast, but I think a teenager could too. I didn't predict the ending, and I wondered about the story when I wasn't reading it. What else do you want from a book? Pretty good.