Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.
Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.
My review:
Okay, so I decided this summer I'd read more books, and this book is the one I started with since I had heard some great things about this book. And I'm glad, glad that I chose this book because this gave me a whole new motivation to read.
One of the reasons I liked this novel was because I felt like the author was trying to give a strong message to his readers of how serious a suicide is, and how it can become. Although Clay the main character, honestly did nothing during the novel, I can tell he's... matured by the words Hannah Baker spoke. I've also heard how this inspired other teens, and Jay Asher may have saved lives.
It was also a page turner; I couldn't put the book down until I was at the final page, the end. I was interested in almost all the 13 reasons Hannah had to blame, modt of them were also pretty surprising. Definitely not cliché.
What's most capturing about this book is probably just the sypnopsis itself; there were already questions forming in my head from there. Why did Hannah commit suicide? Why did she record the tapes? Why is Clay involved?
I would rate this 4.5/5. The ending just kind of hooked me off, maybe because I wanted a little more closure to it (I'm that kind of person!).
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