“I waited almost a whole year before I got this (I could never find the original publication in our shops, so waited until it was re-published over here) and now I've finally been able to read it, I can definitely say that the long wait was worth it. It was just as good - better, in fact - than I imagined it to be, and the story intrigued me just as much as it did when I first found the book last year. The writing was superb, and I loved the little tape recorder symbols that told you whether or not the tape was playing. Clay was an incredible character who I empathised with immediately, and seeing the story through his first person narration made it much more heartfelt and emotional - I could almost hear the static of the tapes and the click as Clay changed the sides over. Although nothing that happened was really that unexpected, I still believed in it - some suicides are driven by just one action, just one person; it's just as likely that a few little things in progression could send someone to it, even when the reasons may not be exactly THAT terrible.”
Aimee wrote this review Saturday, August 29 2009.
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