My Rating: 5*.
Synopsis: You can’t stop the future.
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out why.
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a first hand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.
My Thoughts...
Here we go, my first book review ah!
I loved 13 Reasons Why the book just as much as I loved the series. And I'm pretty sure I can think of 13 reasons why😉. Ha, we'll see.
If you haven't read this book yet, don't read on because there are major spoilers here.
There's been so many mixed emotions and reviews about the story behind 13 reasons why, I can see why people are a little worried about it because if you are reading this book as someone who is depressed and is considering committing suicide, you might look at this story and think that if you kill yourself, everyone will finally listen, understand and even be punished. However, I personally think that the story shows how important it is to be kind always, you never know what's going on in someone else's head and you could be the reason they decide to end their lives, no matter how small or big that issue was that involved you. One thing on top of another and another all builds up in someone's life. Hannah came across as a bubbly girl, smiley, so you would never have known what she was thinking about behind that smile she was showing. People are very good at hiding their emotions. Not everyone knows how to express what they are thinking and feeling.
Some people see Hannah as the victim but some people think that the 13 tapes were evil and all its done is bring misery to everyone's lives. She's just a self absorbed brat who refused to take responsibility for herself. To some extend I agree, but then I also see the message behind it all. I also think that at the end of the day it doesn't matter if she was a complete cow or not, her parents still lost their daughter and this girl was clearly broken enough to end her own life in such a tragic way. It doesn't matter what her reasons were, she should have been able to get help before it got to the point it did. Suicide should never be an option.
Another message I heard loud and clear from this book was that if someone reaches out to you, don't dismiss it, don't just not deal with it because you don't know what to say, you could make a massive impact in the persons life. Hannah reached out to a few people and she got nothing from it, so in the end she just felt completely alone and she felt like no one would even notice if she was gone.
If you haven't read this book yet, don't read on because there are major spoilers here.
There's been so many mixed emotions and reviews about the story behind 13 reasons why, I can see why people are a little worried about it because if you are reading this book as someone who is depressed and is considering committing suicide, you might look at this story and think that if you kill yourself, everyone will finally listen, understand and even be punished. However, I personally think that the story shows how important it is to be kind always, you never know what's going on in someone else's head and you could be the reason they decide to end their lives, no matter how small or big that issue was that involved you. One thing on top of another and another all builds up in someone's life. Hannah came across as a bubbly girl, smiley, so you would never have known what she was thinking about behind that smile she was showing. People are very good at hiding their emotions. Not everyone knows how to express what they are thinking and feeling.
Some people see Hannah as the victim but some people think that the 13 tapes were evil and all its done is bring misery to everyone's lives. She's just a self absorbed brat who refused to take responsibility for herself. To some extend I agree, but then I also see the message behind it all. I also think that at the end of the day it doesn't matter if she was a complete cow or not, her parents still lost their daughter and this girl was clearly broken enough to end her own life in such a tragic way. It doesn't matter what her reasons were, she should have been able to get help before it got to the point it did. Suicide should never be an option.
Another message I heard loud and clear from this book was that if someone reaches out to you, don't dismiss it, don't just not deal with it because you don't know what to say, you could make a massive impact in the persons life. Hannah reached out to a few people and she got nothing from it, so in the end she just felt completely alone and she felt like no one would even notice if she was gone.
The first thing I love about this book is of course Clay! How can you not! I love how well written his point of view is, every feeling he's felt we felt it too. The love he felt for Hannah, I could really feel it and hear when he was listening to her tapes. Clay is someone you want to hear from, you want to feel what he's feeling and you want to know what he has to say. Clay is a good person that Hannah left behind because of miscommunication, he was shy and he struggled to communicate with Hannah when she needed him to the most. He blamed himself and I don't think that's very fair.
The second thing I loved about this book is flicking back from Clayton to the tapes, it was well written. Normally that kind of thing can get confusing when you don't know who's point of view we are reading but not in this book, it was written out so well and clear. It really shows you that there is always two sides to every story and everyone see's things clearly.
I like that the book addresses rape for what it is. Brice not only took advantage of a girl who was passed out, but because no one spoke up about it, he then went on to rape Hannah in the hot tub. His excuse is that she got into the hot tub, so in his mind he thinks that gives him a invitation and that she wanted to have sex with him because she got into that hot tub.
I felt it was so easy to feel the characters emotions and feelings, Jay Asher did a great job with that.
One difference between the TV series and the book is, Justin and Jessica got together In the TV show but not in the book. I think that's a better storyline to go with because it really shows how disgusting is it that Justin let Brice into that room, knowing Jessica, his girlfriend, was passed out on the bed. He knew what Brice was going in their to do to her and he did nothing. Even in the book version though its still bad, girlfriend or not. I guess this storyline shows peer pressure and the fear of upsetting the wrong person. Justin says that Brice was there for him when no one else was, so that was his reason for not wanting to upset him. Justin did go into the room and try to stop Brice but it was too late and Brice just pushed him out and locked the door. Some could say that Hannah could have stopped it too, but when you're in a situation like that and you see the way his own best friend cant even stop him, you would freeze too. If she came out of that closest she probably would have been raped herself then and there or attacked even.
I think its so sad that a lot of teenagers don't want to or cant talk to their parents about things that are going on in their lives.
So there you go, overall I loved the book and I can see the message behind the story. Love each other, be kind always. SUICIDE IS NOT AN OPTION.
Till Next Time❤
I like that the book addresses rape for what it is. Brice not only took advantage of a girl who was passed out, but because no one spoke up about it, he then went on to rape Hannah in the hot tub. His excuse is that she got into the hot tub, so in his mind he thinks that gives him a invitation and that she wanted to have sex with him because she got into that hot tub.
I felt it was so easy to feel the characters emotions and feelings, Jay Asher did a great job with that.
One difference between the TV series and the book is, Justin and Jessica got together In the TV show but not in the book. I think that's a better storyline to go with because it really shows how disgusting is it that Justin let Brice into that room, knowing Jessica, his girlfriend, was passed out on the bed. He knew what Brice was going in their to do to her and he did nothing. Even in the book version though its still bad, girlfriend or not. I guess this storyline shows peer pressure and the fear of upsetting the wrong person. Justin says that Brice was there for him when no one else was, so that was his reason for not wanting to upset him. Justin did go into the room and try to stop Brice but it was too late and Brice just pushed him out and locked the door. Some could say that Hannah could have stopped it too, but when you're in a situation like that and you see the way his own best friend cant even stop him, you would freeze too. If she came out of that closest she probably would have been raped herself then and there or attacked even.
I think its so sad that a lot of teenagers don't want to or cant talk to their parents about things that are going on in their lives.
So there you go, overall I loved the book and I can see the message behind the story. Love each other, be kind always. SUICIDE IS NOT AN OPTION.
Till Next Time❤
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