Thirteen Reasons Why has recently become popular due to the release of the TV show on Netflix. Though I am very disappointed in myself to say that I jumped on this book for the same reason, I am glad that I did.
If you don't know what Thirteen Reasons Why is about, 1. Where have you been?! And 2. Its about a teenage girl who commits suicide and leaves behind seven tapes explaining the thirteen reasons that lead her to it.
I want to start by saying that this book has a very powerful message in it. I love the way it explains that your action can affect someone, even in the instances when you don't do anything at all. It also explains what happens after a suicide and how everyone is left unsure in how they played a part or if they could have helped in some way.
I finished watching the TV show around the same time as finishing the book and I decide that in this instance I actually enjoyed the show better that the book. I know, I know, it's sacrilege. Let me explain why.
The characters in the book just seemed to be there. You got no background to who they were or what they were like, you only got what Hannah knew. I liked that the TV show gave them more to their story. Justin in the book was a jerk, there is no other way to describe him other than that. In the show you got to see who he was and why he did some of the things he did (not that I'm sticking up for him, he is still a jerk) and it allowed you to understand him more. I feel the same way about the rest of the group too, they were all given more background and more time to explain what they were doing.
Clay was the same in both the book and the show for me. So well done Dylan Minnette for pulling that off. He truly did an amazing job and I couldn't fault it at all.
Hannah... where do i start... In the TV show I understood why she felt the way she did and why as a result she did some of the things that she did. I got it. In the book though, she just got on my nerves. By the end of the book I found her so infuriating that I had to keep putting the book down.
Overall I really did enjoy this book and recommend that teenagers, not just the girls, pick this up. Adults too, adults need to read this too. Anyone and everyone needs to read this at least once in their live to be perfectly honest. I do think the TV show did a better job at explaining things though, so you sound totally give that a watch too if you haven't already.
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