The beginning was so depressing I almost stopped reading...Clementine is a bi-polar multi-media artist of some acclaim, who decides she will go off her meds and commit suicide in 30 days. Each chapter counts down a day as she takes care of loose ends before taking her life. Luckily, the book started looking up and I became engaged in her life, art and friends.

Very well written and compelling. Looking forward to more from this author.

I don't like it when books don't have a clear ending, but I'm giving this one a pass for being so thought-provoking.

I resisted this novel when I saw that it was an at least somewhat comedic novel about suicide. I put it down for a time and only picked it up when I was aching for a decent read. The book is very well conceived and written. The chapters mark the number of days left until Clementine ends her life. I hit a point about halfway through when I began to experience a different kind of resistance. I didn't want to lose Clementine, myself. I'd grown rather fond of her, despite her desecration of perfectly good tea ware. So I read on, but with a sense of dread growing with each passing day. I don't want to give anything away, but it is not an obvious novel. It's a good one, and well worth reading. Enjoy.

This book started out great for me. It was an interesting premise and it really had me interested. It's really strange for me to say this, but I was okay with Clementine wanting to kill herself at the end. She had lived such a difficult life with mental illness and it seems that she was very prepared for ending it. She even left out all of her important papers, sold her items, gave her cat a new home and purchased a burial plot and coffin.

The ending really bothered me. It just felt so rushed and then I felt that there was no payoff, if that makes sense. I'm not saying I wanted her to kill herself, I wasn't actively rooting for it. But, I wish that she had more of a revelation at the end to keep living, not just like yeah, I'll sleep at my sister's house tonight. What happened the next day?

I really did enjoy this book, despite the ending. The writing was great and funny, and I look forward to seeing what Ashley Ream has in store for future books!

*This book was provided by the publisher for review on Confessions of a Bookaholic. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

love the premise of this book & the free sample of chapter one was good enough for me to purchase the book, which I now regret. Possible spoilers ahead: The author spends a ridiculous amount of time discussing the food Clementine eats & I understand it goes with the story but it's overly detailed & those scenes didn't need to be that long. In contrast, there are other scenes that are entirely too short & left me feeling like I completely missed things. A character's death comes out of the blue & is never really discussed to the point where I went back in my reading because I thought I missed something... I didn't. The author just dumps things on you & doesn't elaborate. There's a drawn out scene where she ends up creating art with her assistant but it doesn't make sense why or what it is. The feud with Clementine & another artist comes to a head but nothing really comes of it except a frenemies situation which doesn't ring true. In fact, the way the author portrays artists & artists with mental health issues seems like they personally dislike them. The end is completely open & not wrapped up at all, but it's in a way that felt like a cop out. She spent so much time writing about food & that I think she got tired of the actual story & just stopping writing. You can't have a main character sell off everything, give away her cat & car, write a letter to the police saying to look for her body & then have her spend the rest of her last night with someone she's mad at. Honestly, Ms. Ream should write food reviews & not novels. I have no idea how this book has so many good reviews... probably friends of the author or people who got ARCs but didn't leave truthful reviews or disclose that fact. I wish I could get a refund.

DNF - Hab ich nicht fertig gelesen - hat mich einfach nicht gepackt. Würde ich nicht empfehlen

Clementine is going to kill herself in one month. A month will give her time to put her affairs in order - as a well-regarded artist in Los Angeles, she has loose ends to tie up in the art world, as well as a need to find a new home for her cat. As she fires her therapist, stops taking her medication, and enjoys giant meals from her favorite Indian restaurant, it's easy enough to read about, but hard to know what to make of this.

LOVED this book..it actually kept me engaged! But the end was abrupt..left me hanging..

This books handles some heavy subjects ... depression, suicide, abandonment. Clementine has been through a lot, and she's done. Despite that, there was quite a bit of humor, and a lot of sexual stuff. It kept my interest. Honestly though, I wasn't sure about the ending. I think I was listening to it at night and I was tired, and then it was done and ... what happened? And I had to listen again, and same thing? Something about it (maybe just bad timing) was knocking me out! So dedicated relisten, and I think I was still confused. Some SPOILERS ... When Jenny calls, the author never tells the reader the situation, you have to figure it out (it's not that hard, Jenny has been exposed to HIV). Then there is one moment where Jenny says to Clementine "take me with you" and I wondered if the meant that (as in the suicide, a similar situation to the mom/Ramona). It almost would have been poetic. It is an interesting situation. I know the majority of people are 100% against suicide, but ... probably too intense for a book club discussion even.