Butter

You'd think a book called Butter would be about butter, but that's not the case with this book. In this book, Butter is a boy. Well, a teenager to be exact. Butter is a junior in high school, and is severely obese. He's 423 lbs. No one makes fun of him at his school though, they just ignore him, sneaking glances every so often. Butter loves playing saxophone, just not in front of people, except his mom and band teacher. Wanna know another thing Butter loves? Anna. He's in love with her, at least he thinks he is, and talks with her almost every single day-just not in person. In fact Anna doesn't even know who he is. One day, angered by a website created by a fellow classmate, Butter creates a website-butterslastmeal.com. On that, he makes a decision to eat himself to death on New Years Eve. Thinking that only a few people would notice and just shrug it off,  he posted it on the website he was angered by. But what happens is a lot different than what you'd expect. Instead of calling him an attention whore, everyone starts liking him. Sure it's just because he's going to kill himself by overeating, but suddenly Butter is popular. Everyone comments on what his last meal should include on his website. He gets to experience what it feels like to be appreciated. But as time goes by, Butter realizes that the decision of actually going through with this gruesome idea might be a lot harder than he thought. When he started it, he didn't have much to lose; his mother, his sax, his teacher, and his doctor. But after he becomes popular, he suddenly makes tons of friends, and is in the 'in crowd'. He eventually does go through with it, but what happens afterwards, you'll have to find out.....(he survives and wakes up in a hospital). I'm not sure if I like it or not, because while it makes you feel like an insecure 17 year old who is 423 pounds, the whole theme of the book is kind of morbid. None of Butters new 'friends' care that he's going to kill himself. They help him with his plan. The author writes it very realistically. Enough that I started losing faith in humanity whilst reading this book. I'd recommend to some people, just not anyone looking for a fun, cheerful book.