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Book Review of Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why
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This is a touching and emotional book written in an unusual format. The story is told in two points of view simultaneously; Clay's thoughts and actions are interspersed with Hannah's stories. Clay is a teenager who receives a box full of audiotapes from a local girl who has just committed suicide. As he is drawn into listening to her stories, he finds his feelings for her and several other people are forever altered. The reader is really attracted to the female narrator, Hannah. Though the ending is predictable, you find yourself hoping that the circumstances will change somehow.

This book can be very depressing because it talks about events in a teenager's life that really hit home for me, but in the end it is sweetly uplifting.