Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

With a title like that I expected the main character to be more of a cynic but I've been reading it in the wrong tone. She isn't nihilistic about it she is deeply concerned, and thinks about it every waking hour. Reading from a pov that's so anxious, about quite literally everything is sometimes exhausting. In addition to that sometimes I just had to stop reading because Gilda would do something that made me physically cringe. Like when instead of telling the friend of an old woman that she has passed she starts pretending to be her dead friend via email, because she figures that's what will make her happier. Because we are stuck in her head it almost makes sense why she does it. And of course she is constantly anxious about doing that too.

A lot of people seem to have found this to be depressing. Although the subject matter should be and for the characters IS depressing I found it mostly funny because of the absurdity of the situations. It ended on a more positive note than perhaps realistic, it's definitely hopeful too.