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Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
The concept of this book was interesting - Hannah has committed suicide, but she recorded tapes detailing the thirteen reasons why she did it. Except… her reasons are people. She sends the tapes to the first person on the list, with instructions for them to send them on until all thirteen know why she killed herself. And if they don’t? Someone has a second set of tapes, with instructions to let them out to the public if they original set is not passed on. That aspect of the book, I liked. The rest kind of fell flat. WARNING: SPOILER-ISH. The narrator, of course, is the only good guy on the tapes. Boring, predictable, blah. Secondly, Hannah killed herself because of all these guys spreading rumors about her sex life, and all these bystanders who did nothing to help her. I’m sure this can be true to life, but… it seems like a half-ass reason to kill yourself. The bullying wasn’t as bad as other (true) stories I’ve heard. The book was a good read, and I finished it the same night I started it, but it wasn’t as satisfying as I would have liked it to be.