** spoiler alert ** 
 TRIGGER WARNING FOR SUICIDE 
 3.5 STARS 
 I Was Here is a contemporary mystery novel by Gayle Forman. It's about a girl named Cody who's 20 and her best friend, Meg, goes to college out of their small town. One day, out of nowhere, Cody gets an email from Meg which is a suicide note. Meg never seemed depressed, and Cody is convinced that some kind of foul play was involved in her best friends death. As the book goes on, she discovers this whole other side to Meg that she never knew existed. I gave this book 3.5 stars because I was able to guess the ending right off the bat, and I want books (especially mysteries) to keep me guessing until the very last page. I also felt like the romance in this book wasn't really necessary and it took away from the true message of the book. Gayle Forman handled the fragile topic of suicide very well, saying that there is a difference between being suicidal and imagining your death. At times, I just had to put the book down because I was scared out of sorts by how easily Cody missed that Meg was depressed. It left me scared that one day I would wake up and get an email that one of my best friends had committed suicide. Some of the writing seemed less poetic than If I Stay or even Just One Day. Overall, this was a very moving book with a believable set of characters but a very heavy topic.