This book was a roller coaster from start to finish. Everything was different than what I thought it was going to be, especially the ending. 
 I liked that it touched on a lot of sensitive subjects like depression, death, and abusive fathers, not to mention other things that teenagers have to deal with like bullying and high school in general. There is a few sessions with a shrink, or a psychologist, and they're all interesting not only because we get to see Tyler actually deal with his emotions, or sarcasm in general, but the shrink is also a very interesting character, especially in the way that he helps Tyler. As a psychology student in college, I found this whole entire book to be informative and very well thought out, not to mention very thought-provoking. 
 It was a nice change of pace to read a book where the main character is a male. I got more insight on just how much he was affected by his mother's suicide and how he basically dealt with it. He shut himself off from emotions and the world, and he became this douche of a person that it wasn't until he was brought down a few pegs that he realized just how bad he was being. It also helped that he reunited with his old childhood friend who's a goth and they started working in the same place. Tyler and Jordyn became friends again and it was clear to his shrink and the readers just how good of a change this was, especially with all the shit he went through with his own father abusing him not just physically, but also mentally. (view spoiler)[Reading about the way his abusive father treated him, beat him, and called him names and basically almost tried to kill him was hard to do. (hide spoiler)] 
 Without going into too much details, Tyler goes into a sort of self discovery path throughout the whole book and he realizes what he actually wants to do with his life and that's get the hell out of Dodge and actually do something, make something out of himself so that he won't have to be in the same place where he has all those horrible memories, even if it means letting go of the people that made his good memories in the past few months. 
 The last few pages were a little sad to read but at least the author wrote Tyler's happy ending even if it wasn't what the readers expected it to be, I still admired the author for writing a fitting ending for Tyler's story. Defintely looking forward to more books by this author, or any other books similar to this one.