Violet Stone's Reviews > Dying to Forget

1.5 Stars

To be honest, I don't want to write this review. I can't remember the last time I've wanted to throw a book across the room due to plot devices but this book conjured up that feeling multiple times throughout.

The story starts out with Piper at a party, who is then drugged and raped. A few months pass and she is struggling with depression, which includes reckless endangerment of her and others and she starts cutting herself. Fast forward a little more and she causes someones death due to lack of caring and commits suicide as a result.

This is when she enters the Station, which is a place where those who commit suicide make it their mission to help those still alive fight their suicidal thoughts and depression. After glossed over training and therapy sessions, she's good. As in, she's mentally at a state where she understands she was a survivor of rape and that causing her friend's death was an accident. All truths but how can there be such extreme cases that causes her to commit suicide be wrapped up in a couple paragraphs?

Let's move on, because that's not what made me mad. What really had me fired up (and if you read my status updates you'll see) was when she enters the mind of a man. . . . As a way to help those still alive, the suicidal dead enters the body of the living and experiences everything they do. Everything.

Piper didn't even know her assignment was a man until she got down there and sees 'herself'. Instead of freaking out, the only thing she cares about is how handsome he is.

I couldn't wrap my mind around it. The only experience Piper had with a naked man was when she was being raped and now she's living inside a man and has no issues?! Having a few glossed over therapy sessions isn't believable enough for me as a reader to think Piper is okay with this.

Anyways, the book continues on. She experiences a few intimate settings as the man doing some heavy make out sessions with his girlfriend. Which, I have to point out, Piper is extremely judgemental. Instead of being happy for her assignment who was about to shoot himself in the head. She's more concerned about the single mom who is showing interesting in him. Calling her a cougar and other nasty things. It was terrible.

There's more I could say about this book. How she helps a girl beat bullying by straightening her hair. How the first time she even has a reaction to the memory of her raper is when a boy kisses the girl that's her current assignment (I guess she had to be in a girl's body for it mean something).

Aside from all the pretty terrible plot devices and judgmental lead character (which I could be forgiving of if she improved) the idea was good. I loved the thought of sending personal agents to someone who was about to give up on life. So, it wasn't all terrible I just didn't like how everything went about.