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I regret to inform you that I have had to take my own life. This decision has been a long time coming, and was mine alone to make. I know it will cause you great pain, and for that I am sorry, but please know that I needed to end my own pain. This has nothing to do with you and everything to do with me. It's not your fault. Meg
Cody and Meg were inseparable- best friends for life. They knew everything about each other. Or Cody thought they did. But how well do you every really know your best friend? And what do you do when they choose to leave you behind?
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Author: Gayle Forman
Pages: 270
Publish Date: 2015
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Genre: Young Adult
Picking this book up from Tesco I was planning on saving it until the plane. I am so glad I didn't. I was here is about a girl called Cody who lives in a quiet small American town where little much happens. Her mum ( who she has to call Trisha) doesn't really care about her and she never knew her dad. Hence, she spent most of her childhood with her best friend Megan. When her best friend, Meg commits suicide. Cody goes in a quest to find out why Meg did what she did and meets some interesting characters along the way.
As the book is classed as a Young Adult, although I enjoyed it I could very much see I was a little old (I'm 24) for it to make as much as an impact as perhaps a 16-year-old reading it (but that's not the authors fault!). I was here was very well written. It didn't feel as if the story dragged on and was completely believable.
I really felt for Cody, who, to be honest, had been given a bad hand in life and is making the best of the situation. Not wanting to give too much away, I was here shows how people behind a computer screen are really who they are not made out to be and how their actions can affect people on the receiving end. I wouldn't say the book kept me 'gripped' however I certainly found myself wanting to find out what happens at the end. This book is staying on my shelf and is one I will definitely read again.
I really felt for Cody, who, to be honest, had been given a bad hand in life and is making the best of the situation. Not wanting to give too much away, I was here shows how people behind a computer screen are really who they are not made out to be and how their actions can affect people on the receiving end. I wouldn't say the book kept me 'gripped' however I certainly found myself wanting to find out what happens at the end. This book is staying on my shelf and is one I will definitely read again.
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