The issue with this style of writing its that it is shallow, so incredibly shallow. I'll get in to spoilers here. There are five characters who suicide in this work. Suicide is thrown around like a plot device. It's so unbearably childish. It's just a thing people do, they say "oh screw it I'm done" it's done with literally no subtetly. I think David foster wallace put suicidal ideation best "“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant". And this view on depression and suicide marks the difference between a poor writer and a writer who has the ability to look at something and truly see it and bring new and thought provoking conclusions.
The writing also falls in the same trap I think we all had as 15 year olds, dark = mature. If I saw a movie with gore then it was for adults and super mature. But that's not really true. In fact it is more often than not the opposite. It continually aims to introduce these large concepts and winks at the audience saying "deep and and dark right?". Some people say this is due to the fact it's a short story style of story telling that it doesn't expand on these concepts more but a good writer can explore concepts with depth regardless of length as I already showed with DFW.
Overall a very weak work that is kind of insulting.
Time for a bonus round for the cringiest moments.
-tone of suicide for the edgelords
-absurd bullying scenarios. Kids can be mean but they're not insane
-drug addicts who think they've workd everything out
- the same mentality rick and morty fans have is all over this work "its so tough being smart am i right fellas :)
-weird borderline pedo relationships
-bad imagery and symbbolism "a raaaiiiinnnnnnboooowwww"
-everyone's parents are dead like everyone's
-high school students who have the vaguest understanding of existentialism
-teens looking at the sky philosophizing and saying things teens would never say
