Tolog Review: Thirteen Reasons Why

Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher 
reviewed by Morgan Close

When you hear the words, "thirteen reasons why", what do you think? Do you think that it is about thirteen reasons why someone got married or why someone did something that they needed to explain? Did you ever think it would be about a teenage girl trying to tell thirteen reasons why she committed suicide? I didn’t have any idea until I started reading this book. I was so hooked on this book on just the first few pages, I had no idea how great a book about a horrible event that happened to a young girl. 

One day at my mom’s office one of the patients was reading Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher, she was saying that it was a great book with a exciting plot. I completely agree with what she said. The book had a strong moral and the stories of the characters added to the plot. 

This story is about a girl who recorded seven tapes with thirteen stories on them. Hannah Baker, a normal teenage girl, took pills to commit suicide. She thought that she had some very good reasons why she did what she did. On the tapes Hannah recorded twelve reasons, events, and people that lead to her decision to kill herself. The other recording was an apology to the main character, Clay. 

Clay was the main character of the story. He was the one who listened to the recordings and we heard his thoughts about the girl her loved killing herself. We got to know Hannah through the eyes and ears of Clay.
I was very glad I got to read this wonderful book. It helped me understand how mean high school girls can be. It can be extremely sad to hear what drives a girl to drive to kill herself. 

Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher was a very well thought out book. It has an amazing plot, which consists of Clay’s thoughts and feelings, as well as, people he interacts with, and the recordings that Hannah say before she died. I commend Jay on his amazing work.