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Book Review of Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why
Helpful Score: 1


As soon as I started this book I could not put it down, and when I had to, I fought to.

This book was very unique and many times very sad. I felt in a way like I could relate to Clay Jensen a lot from how my life was in high school (minus being a brain - since he was one). Clay receives a package of cassette tapes and is confused and has to figure out how to even play them. He puts in the first tape and hears Hannah's voice.

Hannah is dead. He is very spooked by hearing what she has to say but he has to hear her voice. She was the girl he had a crush on but now she is gone forever. He wants to find out what led to her death. Each tape is a story about someone who hurt her in some way. How did Clay hurt her? He doesn't believe he belongs on the tapes and is very confused. He walks around town to places on a map that go with her story. It was so intriguing.

The sad part of this book is that there is no way to go back to fix the problems leading up to the tragedy, but it can help you see that the way you treat people goes a long way.

If you are interested in the content of this book, there is talk about sexual things and a couple scenes talk about touching parts of the body. There are a couple kissing scenes that aren't described in detail. There were a few words of bad language in this, but mainly just the small "a" word and one "s" word that I saw.