Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside her discovers 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.
This book surrounds the night that Clay listens to the tapes sent to him. From the moment he started listening to the tapes, he is confused as to why he is on them; he never did anything to hurt Hannah. As the story continues and more of the events are revealed, Clay gets closer to uncovering the reason he is on the tapes but will he want to hear it?
This is a wonderful story. I really enjoyed it because it was so different from what I have previously read and I enjoyed having two narrators as I was able to understand how Hannah was feeling during the events as well as knowing how Clay felt about them as they were being told.
Obviously Clay didn't have a lot of character development because it was through the course of one night but I loved Hannah's character development as she became darker towards the end when she started to consider ending her life. I fell in love with how raw and real this story is and I could visualise a person going through these horrible events. This book made me realise that we should consider how our actions can effect people because what may seem small to you, may have been the 'tip of the iceberg' for someone else.
This is a great contemporary which is probably very different from what you may usually read and so I recommend it to you! It is a page turner that I struggled to put down. If you are sensitive to the subject of depression or suicide I don't recommend this book to you only because it deals with a lot of that in the book. However if this is not the case
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.
This book surrounds the night that Clay listens to the tapes sent to him. From the moment he started listening to the tapes, he is confused as to why he is on them; he never did anything to hurt Hannah. As the story continues and more of the events are revealed, Clay gets closer to uncovering the reason he is on the tapes but will he want to hear it?
This is a wonderful story. I really enjoyed it because it was so different from what I have previously read and I enjoyed having two narrators as I was able to understand how Hannah was feeling during the events as well as knowing how Clay felt about them as they were being told.
Obviously Clay didn't have a lot of character development because it was through the course of one night but I loved Hannah's character development as she became darker towards the end when she started to consider ending her life. I fell in love with how raw and real this story is and I could visualise a person going through these horrible events. This book made me realise that we should consider how our actions can effect people because what may seem small to you, may have been the 'tip of the iceberg' for someone else.
This is a great contemporary which is probably very different from what you may usually read and so I recommend it to you! It is a page turner that I struggled to put down. If you are sensitive to the subject of depression or suicide I don't recommend this book to you only because it deals with a lot of that in the book. However if this is not the case
Rating: 4.7
Audience: 13 and above
Audience: 13 and above