Tuesday, October 28, 2014

13 Reasons Why

By Jay Asher

This book is about a girl's story, Hannah Baker's. She committed suicide but tape recorded 13 reasons why she did, and she sends them off to many people. They have to read all of the tapes, then send it to the next person. These tapes blame many people, so Hannah gave a second set to someone (later identified) as "incentive" to listen to the tapes. If they didn't, the second set of tapes would be released to the public. Each reason was linked with a person, and those people were the list of who the tapes got sent to.

I really liked this book, and it was kind of like a mystery. Putting all the pieces together, though it was kind of creepy. Someone would open their door to find a package from a dead girl, with recordings of the dead girl's suicide note. I thought it was really well written, but it could have elaborated a bit more on the characters. Hannah Baker was talked about, but she wasn't the main character so she wasn't talked about that much. It talks about a few mature topics because a lot of the story is about Hannah's life and why she killed herself. I really wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who does not like reading about suicide, but over all it was a pretty good book.

TBR:
Night Circus
Shooting the Moon
Outliers
Eleanor and Park

2 comments:

  1. I agree with everything said here, this was a really awesome book and all of you who haven't read it yet should.

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  2. adding it to my TBR. Will read it soon after reading this blog entry

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