13 Reasons Why

Is it possible to have too many bad experiences in your life time to end it with a blink of an eye? In Jay Asher’s novel Thirteen Reasons Why, for Hannah Baker it is. She has left a box full of cassette tapes, explaining 13 reasons why she ended her life. The tapes are to be sent to each person on her list. The people on her list are the 13 reasons why she killed herself.

Clay Jensen receives the box of tapes and Hannah’s voice tells him that his name is on one of the tapes and that he is in some way responsible for her death. All throughout the night he walked around his small town listening to Hannah’s words. As he listens he experiences feelings that he’s never felt before. He begins to understand all of Hannah’s pain and emotion towards all the people on the cassette tapes. He learns the truth about himself and the truth about all the people that caused her pain. After he is finished with the tapes he will never be able to feel the same ever again, and the next day at school he knows that the people who already had the tapes will be waiting to se what they had done to Clay and over a week or so he will be doing the same. The tapes changed the way he saw life and how he’ll see the world forever.

This book was written very well because it takes place with one person and it goes back and forth between what Clay is doing and then to what cassette tape he is listening to. I also liked how the author used each chapter as a new cassette tape. I would recommend this book to any gender in 7th and 8th grade. This book was very easy to read but it was very good and it just kept making me want to read more. And it left me with questions after ever chapter. Thirteen Reasons Why is defiantly one of my favorite books this year.