Tripsy has one year left in her when she shows up on Dr. Moore's office. She breezes in on his 40th birthday and throws his world in a whirlwind! For the year she reveals to him all the things he thought he knew about teen suicide were wrong. When her year is up she disappears and an unidentified body is found under the same bridge she had been threatening to jump off of.

The book ends on his 43rd birthday. Three incredible years of ups and downs.

I loved the book and read it in less than a day. I was given the opportunity to read Suicide Tango by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I struggled with this book and ultimately threw in the towel and called it quits at about half way. I tried numerous times to read it. but just couldn't connect with the characters.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. Thank you NetGalley!

So the title and the summary cuaght my attention. books about suicide and psychiatrists always catch my eye. I really really wanted to love this book. don't get me wrong.. it is unique. It's told through the psych sessions of the 17 year old and her psychiatrist... which makes it an unique writing style for sure.

but something was missing.. and i just can't put my finger on what. ;/

I really struggled with reading this book. I could only make it to just over half and had to give it up.

I read Suicide Tango with an open mind, as it appears that it's one of those books whereby some will enjoy and others not. I myself was somewhere in the middle. The book made me laugh in places, but can only say that it was better than i had thought.

My thanks to Netgalley and the Publishers for my copy. This is my honest review, which i have voluntarily given.

I struggled to settle into the book and only got about 20% of the way through it. It is well written and I will try reading it again in the future.

Description
SUICIDE TANGO is a brave novel, a quirky story about love and teen suicide, featuring a series of in-depth psychiatric sessions over one year between a 17-year-old girl, Tripsy, and her 40-year-old male shrink, whom she affectionately calls "Dorkus." Tripsy is a super-smart and thinking "suicide" with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. This Indigo Child’s mastery is accompanied by a caustic and devastating wit that often draws blood from nearby souls. Don’t be quick to judge or feel sorry for Tripsy, though. This precocious brainiac has a master plan to shake things up. One day, out of the blue, she descends into the office of Dr. Jon Moore, a middle-of-the-road psychiatrist in Santa Barbara, California, who treats troubled children and suicidal teens. She then begins a year-long series of in-depth psychiatric sessions that test Dr. Moore’s last raw nerve. He has written his own unpublished manuscript about this taboo subject, and he gets schooled on every level by this spirited and otherworldly virtuoso. Unsure about how to react to Tripsy’s unusual behavior, let alone how to treat her, Dr. Moore embarks on a deep emotional journey that forces him to examine his own past, present and future, not only as a psychiatrist but as a human being. Structured as doctor's personal notes, SUICIDE TANGO takes you on a wild roller-coaster ride of emotions, thoughts and beliefs, and introduces some hard facts about American teens in the throes of anxiety, depression and suicidal behavior. Will Dr. Moore survive her storming into his life and educating him in ways he never imagined? What will become of Tripsy who, as she informed Dr. Moore on day one, has only one year left in her?

My Review

Suicide Tango definitely takes you on a roller coaster. I just had a hard time following the story line. Not sure of the ending either, I’m sorry to say I just could not get into this book. I did however like the cover it was colorful and appealing.

This book was provided free of charge in exchange for my honest opinion. I give this a 2 star ⭐️ ⭐️

In the end, we can’t help but look around in disbelief and go, “WTF just happened!?”

I thought that this book took a humorous approach to deal with teen suicide and I did enjoy that parts of the book rang true like when he talks about how children's minds work so differently from adults, especially their ability to tell time and see that there is a light at the end of all that pain. As someone who worked through cutting and depression as a teen and young adult, I could relate. However, I also found a lot of parts off-putting, such as when the author uses words like atavistic and ensconced without really anything to define them. I also found things like "seems the Chinese were all about spreading their piss and crap to the farthest reaches of America" and "for Chinese please press three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine" to be racist and stereotypical. There was a lot of racism and sexism in this book that I thought it could do without. I also thought that the end seemed almost to be an afterthought like there wasn't really anywhere else thought up for how the book to end so this seemed as good an idea as any.

Probably should have kept the title WTF...because that's exactly what I think of this book! Maybe I need an IQ of 181 to appreciate this book? The shrink was clearly in love with the patient, or at the very least completely infatuated with her...which was creepy!

This novel (also titled "WTF Dorkus") did elicit really strong emotions for me - unfortunately, they weren't positive ones. I had a whole host of issues with this book, but here are the main ones. The writer completely missed the mark on accurately describing mental illness, a working therapist-patient relationship, and how people actually experience suicidality. I get that the author was trying to write a satire, but that form has to be based in reality to work. Instead, this felt completely irresponsible. Now, anyone who reads this will think teenagers who are suicidal are merely acting out to get attention or that it's perfectly okay for a male medical professional to describe how intoxicated he is by his young female patient (and not in an intriguing, artistic Nabokov way). Additionally, I don't think the author has actually spent time around teenagers in order to write their dialogue (no, 2019 teenagers do not use the words 'rents, dorkus, hooter (smokes), etc.). And to top it off, casual racism was thrown in there about Mexican immigrants, Chinese people, and Muslims. I could not have been more offended by the tone and content of this piece. Not sure who this will be marketed to but it should not be read by YAs (or adults who can't discern the inaccuracies of the story).

I don't think I have experienced such strong dislike for a book since required reading in high school.

I imagine the narrator-type character is supposed to be disliked, but it was extremely difficult to make myself read this. It highlights everything that's wrong with psychiatry--the condescension, the self-importance. I will say that the tone they have is pretty accurately represented.

If you at all have any experience with mental illness and/or therapy, this is probably not the book for you. If you want a sensationalized wild ride, then this will probably do it.

I received an ARC of this book under the title WTF, Dorkus from #netgalley but before I could read it the name was changed to Suicide Tango. While reading and especially afterwards I understood why the title was changed but am not sure it shouldn’t have stayed with the original title.
This book is fiction which some reviewers seem to have missed. It is satirical but is meant to make you think. It is presented as the notes and recreations of a year of therapy for a teenage girl. Through these you can see the girl getting increasingly frustrated with life but also you experience the confusion and introspection of the psychiatrist as well as him being emotionally drawn to this girl.
At times I wasn’t sure I’d finish this-it was a bit overwhelming and out of my normal read-but I did, including the appendices. To me #suicidetango was not a truly enjoyable read but it will stick with me and it has definitely made me think differently about teenagers and suicide.

I struggled through to 20% and then DFN'd. I couldn't really follow much of what was happening; it's all stream of consciousness, big words sandwiched in here and there, leaps of topic we're expected to follow along on. It's a shame, because what I could follow was interesting, but this title isn't for me. I hope it finds its' home and does very well with other readers who might enjoy it better.

SUICIDE TANGO is a story about love and teen suicide, featuring a series of in-depth psychiatric sessions over one year between a 17-year-old girl, Tripsy, and her 40-year-old male shrink, whom she affectionately calls "Dorkus."
Tripsy is a super-smart and thinking "suicide" with a hyperkinetic knowledge of suicide in teens, especially girls. This Indigo Child’s mastery is accompanied by a caustic and devastating wit that often draws blood from nearby souls.
Don’t be quick to judge or feel sorry for Tripsy, though. This precocious brainiac has a master plan to shake things up.
One day, out of the blue, she descends into the office of Dr. Jon Moore, a middle-of-the-road psychiatrist in Santa Barbara, California, who treats troubled children and suicidal teens
She then begins a year-long series of in-depth psychiatric sessions that test Dr. Moore’s last raw nerve. He has written his own unpublished manuscript about this taboo subject, and he gets schooled on every level by this spirited and otherworldly virtuoso.
Unsure about how to react to Tripsy’s unusual behavior, let alone how to treat her, Dr. Moore embarks on a deeply emotional journey that forces him to examine his own past, present, and future, not only as a psychiatrist but as a human being.

Suicide Tango was a pretty good book. Tripsy is full of sarcasm, troubled, and knows how to push buttons. Dr. Moore is beside himself dealing with the likes of 17 years old Tripsy. In the end, both Dr. Moore is much better as a person by the challenges of Tripsy.
Thanks to NetGalley for the advance read for a review.

This book is absolutely unreadable. Maybe I am not smart enough but the subject of the book got lost in the dance of the big words. Kudos to the author for the ability to use the language to make such creative entanglement of the words. I believe the subject is way too important to let it get lost in the jungle of all these expressions and weaves of the language.

Wtf, Tripsy?!

This book had me speared through the heart. As a person with mental illness that flirted and dabbled with suicide in my teenage years, I cried and felt stabbed by the chapters of this book.
It is real, intensely real. It feels so real, that even though Tripsy writes that it's a work of fiction, part of me doubts that, because for many of us during teenagehood, we are Tripsy and reading this novel is like feeling a war cry rattle through your bones.
It's furious, and funny, and heartbreaking. It's maddening and blurs the lines between reality and fiction.
I cried as I was hurt all over again, but they were tears of catharsis.
This book belongs in every library, in every ya section, in every adult section. It might be fiction, but the meat of the topics within are most definitely not.
Tight and raw writing, highly recommended to pretty much anyone.

Thanks to Netgalley for a free review copy of this book. I definitely loved it! I think that it was a wonderful story about a topic that isn't talked about much today, but should be. The title and the cover definitely drew me into the book and I stayed for the words of the story.

I would recommend this book to friends and other readers. Thanks again!