Cover to Cover
And In Bewteen the Lines
By Katy, Lauren, Aria, and Rya
13 Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.
Through Hannah and Clay's dual narratives, debut author Jay Asher weaves an intricate and heartrending story of confusion and desperation that will deeply affect teen readers.
Aria's Review:
Thirteen reasons why was AMAZING! I didn’t actually read the book, but listened to it as an audiobook. If you’re like me, and very picky about the reader who narrates the book, you’ll like this one. The book holds just the right amount of mystery, thriller, romance, drama, and overall grabs the reader from the first page. I would recommend this book to any fan of young adult books! Jay Asher does a magnificent job of making the charters and the storyline sing by including small details to grab the readers attention, but not enough to give the storyline away-she keeps the ending and the reason a mystery.
Katy's Review:
Lauren's Review:
Wow.
I never thought a book could be so amazing yet do depressing and sad at the same time. Ok, maybe I did. (The Fault in Our Stars) I couldn't put it down! The whole book I was hoping Hannah was alive... no. This book is unique in that the author tells you in the first chapter that the main character is dead. I am feeling... depressed but wowed.
Rya's Review:
After reading book after book after book, sadly there are very few books that can surprise and completely capture my attention. Very rarely anymore do I find a book that I pick up and cannot put down. This is a book that I bought just because I was at B&N and I wanted to buy a book. I bought this book because two of my friends had read it and even though I don't usually start a book while I'm in the middle if reading another, I was bored and in the car so I picked up the book.... And I didn't set t down until the end. I am a naturally curious person, as most humans are, so when there was this story, a story of a girl who committed suicide, I was intrigued. A girl whose life had nothing left for her made these tapes for the people that had messed up her life so completely that she saw no point in continuing on this road already leading her to hell. I have to admit I silently cried for Hannah almost throughout the entire book, but when I came to Clay's tape, I sobbed for the love that they lost. I, as the reader, had embraced Hannah's and Clay's characters and was living their live through this book and when I got to the end, I had one thought: holy shit. This is one of the books that I will remember reading forever. Not because I liked the story, the characters, a dystopian world, the romance like most of the other books that I read. No I will remember this book for the hardships and the depression and the thing it made me think about. This is not just another dystopian novel for teens to read about a world they can never visit, this is a novel about the real world; a novel that changes and saves lives This is novel that makes people think: how could I do what Clay never had the courage to do to Hannah? How could I help someone on the brink of nonexistence? This is why everyone should read this book: not because it had a good story about a dead girl getting revenge on the people that killed her, not because there was romance that had died with her, friendships and secrets that died with her, but because this book has the power to change the lives of people who take the book, read and think and then act: because when a writer takes the time to write such a powerful story, the reader should take the story and do something equally powerful with it. This is a book I will remember for a very long time, for the heartbreak, the sadness, and the way it has and will change my life. I hope this story also has the chance to change the lives of many other because I recommend this book to everyone in the world, and I hope you find the book as equally empowering and thought provoking as I did and have the same reaction as I did at the end: Did that really just happen?