A review by badseedgirl
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates

5.0

For 90% of this book, there is very little action and yet I was tense reading the entire thing. I think the author took some liberty with the number of suicides per year that are accomplished in this forest, but that is of very little consequence to the ultimate story. This is based a real place and there are signs all over it apparently requesting that individual think about their friend and family before doing anything. There are also suicide prevention officers who walk around the forest and talk with people who are alone or appear distressed to help prevent suicides. NYT did an informative article about it here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/world/asia/suicide-forest-japan-logan-paul.html

I enjoyed the very bleak ending of this book.

Edited, because apparently I did not save 1/2 of this review and had to go back in and type it up!