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.
From the Publisher (Penguin)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The back story: I have no idea why I bought this, I remember buying it at a 6 books for $50 sale and I needed one more book to make 6, I saw this one and I remember that it had been on my to-reads list for a while, so I thought “I’ll get to it eventually.” So, several weeks later I can’t sleep it’s around 11, I decide to read and I need to read something that will probably make me fall asleep, yep you heard me I was looking for a boring book. This book was not a boring book. I was up until 4 reading this and when my mum came in to check that I was sleeping (yeah, my parents still do that. I am probably the only teenager with a 10 o’clock bedtime), I read it under the sheets, using the light of my I-phone; I just couldn’t put it down. This morning I woke up (after I had finished it) and reached for the book, I realised that I had finished it. The book was over. I was suddenly really sad, I also had to pee. But after my feelings disappeared (I went to the toilet), I realised…I didn’t really realise anything, I went and had breakfast, then I went to Netflix and a bit of Scrubs, then vampire diaries. And now I am here writing the review. So onto the real review:
What the book was about: This book was about Hannah, she recently committed suicide, but before she died she recorded a bunch of tapes, she sent them to the 13 people that caused her to kill herself. The way she sent it is like chain mail, you read it then you pass it on to the next person mentioned in the tapes. The next person to receive the tapes is Clay, Clay listens to the tapes and throughout the night he well you know does stuff, I’m not going to say any more in case I ruin the book, but the beginning, the end and the middle, wow. Just wow. You have to read it to get why I said that.
Your thoughts: I’ve had a full day to decide what I’m going to say about the book and I want to say so many things and my brain can’t organise them, so I’m going to give dot points. Yep I’m going to give you my thoughts on the book in dot points.
• So, dot point 1: When I finished the book I was speechless, literally.
• The writing was amazing, it was exactly what a teenager would say (in my opinion) and I liked the format and how it was told from Clay’s point of view, but the book was also told from Hannah’s. That may not make sense, but the author pulled it off.
• The characters, there is so much that I can say here. Clay, I spent a lot of the book in suspense like you. Trying to figure out why Hannah died. Hannah, I have no idea what to say and because unlike a lot of the reviews I’ve read, I am not someone who has ever considered suicide, so I don’t know if that is what someone in your position would feel or if the author was just over-exaugurating. But for me it seemed real, and the book had me tearing up at parts.
• The book was beautiful.
• The plot was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. It was done amazingly and the concept, such a great idea and the author pulled it off.
Recommendations: I am super glad I read this and I recommend it to YA lovers and I know it sounds like something strange or just a general sob story. It’s not; it’s an amazing, beautiful story of a girl explaining why she killed herself. Personally, I would recommend this to everyone, because it grabs you off the first page and keeps you interested the whole way and isn’t that a good book?
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