Forget Me Not by Carolee Dean is a 374-page novel told almost entirely in poetic verse. The book follows two different individuals’ points of view, which is made clear not only by the writing style, but also by the font used.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: This book contains suicide/mentions of suicide and self-harm/mentions of self-harm

Synopsis: Ally, a high school student, is devastated when a bad photo of her is released. She spends her time at school in a back hallway through which almost nobody else passes. Elijah, who we also get a P.O.V. from, has spent a lot of time in that hallway and knows Ally is halfway dead, which is something Ally herself has yet to figure out.

My rating: Five out of five stars. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves angsty YA. Despite the heavy topics, this was an easy read (as in, it did not take me long to finish) for me. Despite Ally not being an extremely likeable character, I still empathized with her. ( )

Great story ( )

If you liked I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder I think you will really enjoy this book.
Ally's life is turned upside down when a naked photo of her is spread all around the school. After a fall from the school roof Ally is now in a state of limbo between life and death.
Elijah once attempted suicide and made his way back to life but can now see ghosts and those stuck in between. He helps Ally through the process of deciding.. life or death. ( )

Ally is a freshman in high school who finds herself sitting in an unused hall of her school. Slowly she learns that she's in the "dead" hall, where kids who died at school are doomed to stay forever. But Ally's old friend Elijah, who spent a stint in the hall himself after he unsuccessfully tried to kill himself, manages to break into the hall and tell her that she's lying in a state between life and death and her choices now can keep her alive. The reader gradually learns that Ally jumped from a roof after she became targeted as the school slut.
Lots of girls will gobble this up. I think it's fine, though there's a lot of stock characters and situations that don't seem fresh and real to me. A very quick read. ( )