CW: mother threatens to kill herself a number of times to manipulate her daughter ( )

I ended up skimming this one. I just didn't care all that much about the main character. There was no real emotional pull for me, and so I basically skipped to the end to find out the solution to the mystery. ( )

There is so much to like about this poignant little novel about life, death, loss, and love. It had hooked me from the first sentence and swept me along until I found myself at the end in one sitting. I have a passive interest in theoretical physics, and so I especially enjoyed the quantum theory that was woven into the story. Okay, so maybe most high school chemistry teachers aren't going to launch into a lecture on wave-particle duality, but I still ate it up.

This is one of the best novels I have read in recent memory. It makes me want to better myself, live life to the fullest, and remember that even if I have regrets, each one of them have shaped me into who I am today. ( )

Few people I have talked to say they have read, or would ever read this book, however I recommend it as a good teenage/young adult read for anyone it that age group.
It is a good representation on life from the view point of someone (Madison Stanton, the main protagonist of the story) who has already lived it. But she isn't a frumpy old lady who died of old age. She is a teenager and she needs to find out how she died and who killed her. The only way she can do this is touching items she lost when she was still alive and being put back into the moment when she lost them.
All in all I really like this book. I feel like there could have been more of a plot line but there is enough there that reading it is not in any way a bore. ( )

The premise of this reminds me of a YA book I'd recommend to fans of this, Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall by Wendy Mass.
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And now that I've read this, I'd recommend you skip it and go straight to Mass's book. This was a story about how a girl comes to terms with her death. The other characters served her growth, but weren't fully developed. Well, she wasn't really either, tbh. And what's up with the subplot about Dana? That made no sense and should have been excised by the editor. Of course, then the book would have been too short to publish. The book wasn't hard to enjoy while reading, but after I'm done, and thinking about it, I like it less and less. ( )