Saturday, April 05, 2008

Thirteen Reasons Why


Just finished my fourth book for the Young Adult Challenge and it was very good, but oh, so sad..From the front cover:"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 explains that there are thirteen reasons she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them, If he listens he will find out."
This book was an interesting look into the mind of a troubled young adult who feels she has no one to trust. Even though the events were pretty typical of teen age life, Hannah had no support system to help her deal with her issues.I wish I would have listened to this book because the writing is in two very distinct voices: Clay's and Hannah's...

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