Rainy Day Reads

This is a story about 16 year old Aysel, who wants to die.   I really wanted to read this book because it deals with suicide which is such a taboo subject, and I think we need to talk about it more. I bought it a long time ago, and it has sat on my shelves for this long because I started hearing not so great things about it. But I finally decided to judge for myself and picked it up a few days ago.   The story is about Aysel, whose father has committed a crime that she feels makes her a pariah in the community, and she is afraid she will turn out like him if she grows up. So she decides to kill herself and finds a buddy on a suicide website. She meets up with Roman, who turns out to be a once-popular kid dealing with some heavy stuff. They slowly get to know each other as they plan their deaths, and of course with a book like this you are hoping that they will come to realize that they have many things to live for.  There were a number of characters in ...