A review by bonitazivot
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

1.0

I hated this book SO much!

First off, the writing style pissed me off. From page 1 it was nothing but random complaints, written in a way that not a single person would feel sorry for Hannah.

Then there's the order the tapes: By the time we got to actual problems with a real significance, I already hated Hannah and her teenage drama, and had trouble feeling bad for her. Why wasn't this reason nr. 1? Was it not significant enough for her?

Throughout the whole book I felt that Hannah was a normal teen just looking for reasons to kill herself, but the reasons she did was regular teenage drama. I remember feeling sad most of my teenage years, the mountains of drama that filled my days, but none of those things EVER drove me to kill myself.

The above makes me wonder: was the writer trying to describe something he never went through? Was he a male adult trying to figure out what could make a female teen so depressed, she was driven to suicide? He missed the mark on so many of these reasons and therefore I was left disappointed by this book.

For whoever is wondering if the tv show is worth it: season 1 was pretty decent but it went downhill from there and tbh it should've been done after the first season. There was a HIGHLY graphic scene that made me stop watching, I believe in season 2 but can't remember. Haven't seen the last season.