By: Jay Asher
A debut novel yet again♥.
This mysterious, mind boggling work of art is nicknamed "pain on tapes" and I think it has a very beautiful touch to it. The ending did seem disappointing.. maybe a little confusing. But probably because I was kind of skimming through (reading with my friend and hell my friend is a fast reader maybe cause I like to visualize haha). The very thought that so much can happen and that you can put on tapes and what life is when you're suicidal. How many bad things that can happen to someone all on a well planned pack of tapes that take you to a whole new level of understanding and just get you hooked on the book. The concept is something new to me and that's probably what got me going.
The plot follows a girl named Hannah and the points to her death. Apparently she made tapes and passed them along to the special 13 people. People who had done something terrible to her in her life. Clay was one of them. But he was confused and terrified -- what had he done? He rolled the tapes. And decided to find out.
A slightly grim concept but a beautiful plot in the end. "TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY" is a great debut novel and I admire it very much. I don't know if any novels like this were made -- but it did seem to drift off after a while. To me, it really didn't matter. And I think the whole tape thing, suspense and the grimness of it kept me reading onwards. It was really interesting.
Yet, the ending however? Wasn't up to my taste. I didn't understand it at all. Nevertheless, the book as a whole was interesting and made some sense by itself. I liked it.
Mark: 8/10
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