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“Eerie, beautiful, and devastating.” —Chicago Tribune
“A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing.” —The New York Times
“Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading.” —Amber Gibson, NPR’s “All Things Considered”
You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.
So I was going to write a full review of this book, but then I realised every one and their mother has read this book (mostly) so I'll just do a mini review. I didn't necessarily love this book - there are issues with it, and I don't know where I fall on the whole concept of sending the people who made you kill yourself audio tapes so they could listen to you recount why you killed yourself because of them, because it seems a bit narcissistic? And kind of not how suicide works?
Then, on the other hand, it was super compelling. Because even if I didn't necessarily agree with Hannah's reasons, I was still curious what they were. What can be so bad, so horrific, that you end your life? There's part of me that wants to scream at Hannah that this is just high school and it will, seriously, get better, as cliched as it is. Then there's the part of me that's never suffered with suicidal thoughts so how the hell can I judge what Hannah did?
IDK how I really felt about this book. It kept me hooked, sure, but I could hardly say it's a favourite/must-read.
