First of all, I wasn’t completely convinced by the credibility of the characters and their (lack of) development of both the main character Jeff and the other patients.
I want to make clear that I am by no means saying this novel by Michael Thomas Ford was a bad read and I mostly enjoyed reading it, but I did have a few minor problems with it that influenced the rating. (I’m aware the second title was published years after Suicide Notes, but that doesn’t take away the fact that I think it was better). In fact, both It’s Kind Of A Funny Story and The Shock Of The Fall use quite a similar setting with a main character inside a psychiatric ward and if I have to be honest I feel those two books mentioned above did a better job especially when it comes to character development and credibility in general. Suicide Notes is not the first book I’ve read that uses an interesting mix of humor and a serious theme like mental ilness and (teenage) suicide and therefore its plot is not exactly original. If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.” Probably if you did manage to do it you’d spontaneously combust. I don’t think you ever do get it totally together.
Genre: YA, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary
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