I liked this book. I think that it deals with suicide honestly, and with compassion. It doesn't pass judgment, but points out how each of us can potentially help someone in need.

Not to say that the characters in the book don't pass judgment, but that's part of the author's point. And I think the Jay Asher does an admirable job showing how someone can lose hope, and how to outside observers that that loss of hope can be hard to spot, if not impossible to understand.