Book Review: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is about a teenage boy who receives tapes in the mail from a girl at his school who killed herself two weeks before, listing the thirteen reason why she killed herself. He happens to be one of them.

I found this book very interesting, once I got into it - something that took all of 50ish pages, I was hooked. I found the way it was written to be interesting. It had Hannah's tapes going though out the story with Clay's reactions and what he was doing as he was listing to them, along with what was going though his mind. I ended up feeling sorry for Clay. I felt like he wanted to do more, but didn't know what to do.

I thought Hannah's reasons why she killed her say were interesting. She decided to go all the way back to where it all started and than slowly made her way to the point where she decided to kill herself. I though it really show how some times, something you think is meaningless can led to something so much more.

I would like to say, going into this book I thought I was going to cry at one point due to the subject matter. As it turned out I did not cry. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it wasn't sad just not as sad as what I thought it would be. I would also like to add, this is not a book you should read if you don't want to read about a heavy topic.