This is a spoiler filled book review. Please be aware that if you keep reading there will be information that you may not want to know if you have not read the book.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Stars
Quotes to Remember:
“You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.”
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore. But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the noise in your head.”
“Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true—that aren't really how we feel—but they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about.”
“It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.”
*This is your final spoiler warning*
*Continue with Caution*
My Review:
I waited a long time to read this book. It's was on my TBR long before the Netflix show came out and once it did, I loved the show so much that I didn't want either to ruin the other. I really enjoyed this book though and I wish that I would have watched it years ago!
My biggest complaint about this book was that it had much less impact than the show. It lacked some of the suspense that I was expecting from it and felt that it was a little bit dull. This was definitely a suspense novel and I was left wanting to read more and more. I appreciated that the book was less graphic but I wasn't expecting the storyline to move so quickly.
I read it in a day while on a flight to Puerto Rico and I was expecting more detail and for it to have a much stronger impact on my emotionally. Part of this may have been because I knew the story already which is why I still gave it such a high rating. I think that I should have reacted more strongly to the issues of sexual assault, suicide, and bullying but it felt rushed through and it just didn't impact me in the same way that the show was able to.
I will say that I still would choose the book over the show because I liked how it approached certain subjects. I felt like the book was much more audience friendly than the show was and I really liked and appreciated that. Without the graphic depictions of sexual assault and suicide I think that the book is able to convey it's message in a way that doesn't alienate people.
Publisher's Description:
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 firsthand witness to Hannah’s pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever.
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