Hey guys!
Today I'm going to be sharing my thoughts,
opinions, and feels on My Heart and Other
Black Holes by Jasmine Warga.
There is a trigger warning for suicide with
this book so be aware of that before going
into this book and also before watching this
review.
This is the story of a girl Ayzel who essentially
wants to commit suicide, but she's not sure
if she has the courage to do it alone.
So she goes on this online forum and on this
online forum there's a section for suicide
partners and so she finds a suicide partner
and together they form a suicide pact.
That's what this book is about, I don't want
to go into too much detail, because I think
it's just one of those books that you just
need to dive into and to just experience it
for yourself.
It is a very dark book, but it's a beautiful
book at the same time.
I will say though prepare yourself, because
this book gave me a wild case of the feels
and it was overwhelming at times.
OVERWHELMING.
This is one of those books that had me on
the verge of tears with every page.
I'm not a book cryer, I don't cry often reading
books, but this one moved me to tears.
It was an emotional reading experience to
say the least.
I would suggest having tissues on hand with
this book.
It was really difficult for me at times reading
this book, because it's just so hard seeing
these characters just kind of feel like they've
lost worth in the world.
They feel completely worthless and I just
wanted to like jump into this novel and to
lead them into a different direction and to
just show them that they are loved and that
they have worth and that they are important.
So let's talk about the writing, the writing
was excellent.
This book was so well written.
Specifically I want to talk about the tone,
because I think that this book just did such
a great job at maintaining this very dark
and sad tone.
It never shyed away from this dark feelings
that these characters are facing and I just
felt like with every page, you could just
sense the sadness and I think the author did
a fantastic job at maintaining that feeling
throughout the book.
The plot was paced really well, not too fast,
not too slow.
I think it gave you this chance to really
get under the skin of these characters and
just to see what they go through on a day
to day basis and just how it feels to feel
the way that they feel.
Something else that I really liked and I wasn't
expecting was this mysterious aspect to this
book.
In the book Ayzel's father has killed somebody,
it's not a spoiler, okay? it's not a spoiler
at all, but in this book he's killed somebody,
but you don't know how he kills this person
until later on in the book and you're kind
of leading up to that point when she breaks
down and really shares how that happened and
it was just so dark and it just added this
really mysterious aspect to this book and
I just think that was a really great thing
to add to this story.
And I adored these characters so much!
I love how completely different the two main
characters were from each other.
You've got Ayzel who just does really well
in school, she's very smart, and she loves
classical music.
I think she kind of came of as a bit pretentious,
but that didn't bother me too much.
And then you've got Roman and he's very athletic
and he's kind of the popular guy, I guess
you could say.
I like the fact that we have these two characters
that you wouldn't expect to be feeling the
way that they feel and I just think that that
was so important, because they're not people
that you would expect to feel this way, but
that's the thing you never know what somebody's
going through.
You could be the smartest person in your class
and still be facing suicidal thoughts or an
athlete who is just like the star basketball
player, but still be having these suicidal
thoughts and so I think that that was just
so important to show that anybody can feel
the way that these characters felt.
So those are my thoughts, opinions, and feels
on My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine
Warga.
I highly recommend this book, it's such a
beautiful book, it's sad, but it's beautiful
and I would just highly recommend it.
It was so great!
So let me know down below if you guys have
read this book or if you're planning to and
I will see you guys soon with a new video!
Thanks for watching!
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