13 Reasons Why

Summary

In 13 Reasons Why there is a boy named Clay who is anaverage teenager trying to manage high school. Lately he has been having a rough time because his friend Hannah Baker had recently commited suicide. After school one day he comes home to find a package at his doorstep. he brings it in, opens it up, and inside are seven audiotapes numbered on each side one to thirteen. He puts in the first tape, side 1, and presses play. To his surprise it's Hannah's voice on the tapes. But Hannah was dead, how could she be on these tapes? In the tapes, Hannah explains that each of these tapes explains why she decided to kill herself. There are 13 people who caused her death and Clay is one of them. All through the night Clay listens to each tape to try and understand how he could've caused her death. As he listens to the tapes and travels through his little town he discovers some deep, dark secrets that people have kept hidden.

Review

I really enjoyed reading 13 Reasons Why. It was interesting and suspensful, it kept me on my toes the whole time. I believe that what the author was trying to acomplish was to try and understand how a teenager feels. High school can be a scary place and it can make a person feel out of place and alone. 13 Reasons Why talks about a girl who had just moved to a new high school and was trying to fit in, but everything that was said about her ended up being bad becasue she was the new girl. Its hard enough when your the new kid, but its even harder when you don't have any friends to help you through it. Another thing I really liked about 13 Reasons Why was the style the author, Jay Asher, used in the book. Writing as a teenager can be an extremely hard task, but Asher did a very nice job. I felt like I could really relate to both Clay and Hannah throughout the whole book. 13 Reasons Why was a very good book; it was intriguing, suspensful, and eye opening and I would recommend it to any teenager looking for a good book.