4/5 rocket ship statues.
Another Gayle Forman book for the shelves. I have loved her writing style for a while and "I Was Here" was no exception. A tough book for me at times because of having many connections to friends who have tried and failed as well as tried and succeeded at committing suicide. All around a good story though. I felt that I could really connect with what Cody was going through because I've been partially in her shoes before.
Dealing with a friend dying is never easy. Make it your best friend, and having their death be intentional? Whole new ball game! When Cody's best friend, Meg, commits suicide Cody is stuck in a rut that she doesn't really know how to get out of. With the suggestion that maybe Meg didn't make the decision to take her own life entirely on her own, Cody finds a need to get to the bottom of it. This story takes you on a hunt for information, acceptance, and introspection on a moral road full of what ifs. Cody's story will stick with me for quite some time I believe because of the personal attachments to the theme of the book as well as the strong writing style that Gayle Forman brings to all of her books. Although the subject matter is heavy, there are still some light bits to keep it from becoming unbearable. I would certainly recommend this book to a few of my friends.
~~~~~~~~~~ Synopsis~~~~~~~~~~
Cody and Meg were inseparable. Two peas in a pod. Until . . . they weren’t anymore. When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.