Sara didn't want Emma to kill herself. She just wanted Emma to stay away from her boyfriend. But when Emma comits suicide, the whole world wants to blame Sara and her friends.
The best thing about this book is the spotlight it shines on bullying and how thoughtless, spiteful actions can have such an impact on someone's life.
This book had the unusual distinction of not containing a single likeable character. It was really quite some feat, considering how many characters there are, and even the poor girl who is bullied to suicide comes across as a bit whiny and clingy. That sounds terrible, but there it is.
Admittedly, Sarah does develop towards the end into not-quite-such-a-horrible-person, but even so she's a long way from likeable. And I'm a connoisseur of bastard MCs. The development, though, is tempered by the fact that she's such a vacuous, spiteful, desperate person to begin with. For the most part of the book, she refuses to even consider that her actions had anything to do with Emma's death. Maybe I'm missing something and her denial was a reaction to her horror over what happened.
A book doesn't have to have likeable MCs to be a worthy read (look at literally any book by Courtney Summers), but the MCs in this book were just so casual and pointless and repetitive in their spite that it grew tiresome to read after a while and left me completely emotionally detatched from them.
A better book about bullying is Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver.
3 stars