My Heart & Other Black Holes - Jasmine Warga
★★★☆☆
Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There’s only one problem: she’s not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel’s convinced she’s found her solution: a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman) who’s haunted by a family tragedy is looking for a partner. Even though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other’s broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. Ultimately, she must choose between wanting to die or trying to convince Roman to live so they can discover the potential of their energy together. Except that Roman may not be so easy to convince.
I really wanted to love this book, like really wanted to. At some points depression was really well written and explained, in others.... it really was not. I feel like the first half of the book was so much better than the last. I read it because of the hype it got in the past and I wanted to read it for a while, but I’m kind of disappointed?
The ending for me sucked. It felt like a fairy tale ending that just ended. I actually had to check if I skipped a bit. I would have loved another chapter just nicely wrapping everything up. Obviously I can’t write much explaining as I try to keep my reviews 100% spoiler free, but some people I’ve spoken to felt the same so it seems to be a common thought.
I really enjoyed the first half, but the second half let me down.
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