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4.0

This book was fantastic. I teared up a bit at a few different points, especially toward the end. Lex and her grief felt so visceral the whole time and parts of this book made my chest hurt. It felt so real. There were only two real things that kept it from being a five star read. First, at times it seemed a little preachy. Listing risk factors, listing statistics, all things I'd seen a million times before in health class. It felt like I was being talked down to a little. The second was that the book was a little generic. I felt like I'd read this story before. It was a good story, it just didn't feel new- like it was following the same blueprint as a dozen other stories I'd read. But it followed that blueprint better than most of them, so I would still thoroughly recommend this to anyone looking for a story about grief. (Heavy trigger warning for graphic suicide description)