This book has captured the feeling of confusion, guilt and desperation when a friend dies. It may not have struck a cord for many people considering the rating but it hit home for me. The self destructive desire to go places or to do actions their loved one had when alive. Even they way they never talked again after they all stopped mourning is familiar. Most of this applies to orie who seems to let himself be used by the others almost as an attempt to distract himself from his own feelings. Maybe it just hits me because there was a time I used to be like the orie in the midpoint in the book but eventually became similar to the one in the end.
This book has captured the feeling of confusion, guilt and desperation when a friend dies. It may not have struck a cord for many people considering the rating but it hit home for me. The self destructive desire to go places or to do actions their loved one had when alive. Even they way they never talked again after they all stopped mourning is familiar. Most of this applies to orie who seems to let himself be used by the others almost as an attempt to distract himself from his own feelings. Maybe it just hits me because there was a time I used to be like the orie in the midpoint in the book but eventually became similar to the one in the end.