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 Butter is a truly heartbreaking novel about bullying and a search for acceptance. 
 Butter is a lonely obese teenager who doesn't have (m)any friends. He's sick of living life as the fat kid no one notices, and decides to do the unthinkable--he's going to eat himself to death, and broadcast it live on the internet on New Years Eve. To announce this idea, he sets up a website his classmates start commenting with ideas and suggestions. Not long after, Butter is finally being noticed by the crowd, is invited to parties, and gets to sit at the cool kid table at lunch. But not for the right reasons. 
 Though at times it's very unrealistic, the bullying in this book made me sick to my stomach. The popular crowd only want Butter around so they can see him fail and fail again. It's the kind of bullying that isn't obvious, because they act nice, in a way. Butter doesn't even realise that their encouragement towards his suicidal behaviour is wrong. He's just happy to have 'friends', or at least someone, anyone, who talks to him. 
 I wasn't a big fan of Butter's character. He was weak in every way, and to be honest, the amount of food he eats grossed me out and destroyed my appetite while reading the book. Being overweight must feel terrible, but I couldn't really feel sorry for Butter. He was a bit arrogant and didn't even try losing weight. But, I must admit, that after a while, he grew on me a little. I just wish we could've read more about how he became the morbidly obese, self-conscious kid he is. 
 It was almost impossible to put this book down. It was so disgusting and wrong what these people do to Butter, but so intriguing at the same time. You want to keep reading because you want to know if Butter goes through with his plan, or if the bullies realise what they're doing, or if he doesn't go through with it and gets shut out of the crowd again. Anything could happen. 
 This is not a book that preaches about how bullying is bad and suicide is not the way out--this book simply tells a story. And that's something I really liked about it. I recommend it if you like books under the category 'YA Saves', or simply books about bullying.