Owen, Frank, Audrey, and Jin-Ae have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each attempts suicide and fails, the four teens make a deadly pact: they will escape together on a summer road trip to visit the sites of celebrity suicides...and at their final destination, they will all end their lives. As they drive cross-country, bonding over their dark impulses, sharing their deepest secrets and desires, living it up, hooking up, and becoming true friends, each must decide whether life is worth living--or if there's no turning back.
Crash Into Me is a book I've been meaning to read for a really long time, and now I've read it, I keep thinking WHY on earth did I wait so long?
Suicide is a taboo subject and isn't a subject that I can see many teenagers picking up. Crash Into Me doesn't glorify suicide in anyway, it's more about helping to understand how young people feel when considering and how even as unconventional of a friendship the four characters in this book have, friends CAN help.
Whilst keeping to it's serious subject, the novel does have many funny moments and the flashbacks to IM chats - which help us understand some background of the characters.
I guarantee you will fall in love with at least one of the characters, if not all. The whole truth about Owen's story will rock you to your core and the final chapters will leave you sitting on the edge of your seat, literally holding your breath.
This is a novel, you can't really say much about without giving the ending away but just know that you will NOT be disappointed. Seriously.
Rating: 5/5
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