Well it should start about why I pick up this book in the first place. It started back a while ago when I saw a trailer about the book on a ad; I thought that it seem pretty interesting to watch but I never watched the show. I didn't want to read the book either because well it's a book and I don't like to read when I could do something else I like. Then when we had to pick a ssr book and you had it on self I though well now is a good time to read it. The two point of views it had in the book was the first book I encountered with that type of writing so that in itself made the book different from others. The other reason why it stands from the crowd is what it focus on; what it talks about, and that is about suicide. It's why I pick it up because it was a book that was not afraid to talk about the heavy stuff the stuff that some people just don't want to talk about. The book and the stuff it talks about is well to be honest it really didn't "put it on the light" for me at least. I know that this book did shine a light on something they didn't know. It shine that light over the people in the book who messed up and just wanted to ignore it or run away from their problems. It talks about suicide and well I already knew about suicide and have my own opinion about it, and well it still have not change my opinion about it which I don't think that's what it was going for just to tell people about it but I already again knew about that subject. The other subject it talks about is second hand information, and how people just believe what other people say about other people, but again I already knew about that subject. I don't just believe what people say about another person I either just ignore what they say, or I try to know the person face to face, and not just think about what he or she might be just because someone else told me about that person. The other subject it talks about it is rape in high school, and well I know the subject I was not clueless about it I didn't know that people rape in high school its just I don't really have an opinion about that so its just meh. In my opinion it was a book that talked about the heavy stuff the heavy stuff I knew but other people might not have known and that was one of the reason I think Asher made this book was to teach people about these subjects to people who did not know these subjects this book then did it's job for other people just not for me because I already knew about almost all of the subjects it talks about.