Thirteen Reasons Why Review

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Clay Jensen comes home from school one day, and there is a package waiting for him and in it is 7 audiotapes with both A and B sides. He finds out that it is the girl named Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide, by taking pilles who is the person on the tappes. She tells that this box with tappes will be send on from person to person of those who caused her to eventually commit suicide, and that there is 13 persons. If the person that has the tappes doesn´t listen to them and send them on, the tappes will go public. She also explains that all the persons have got a map delivered several weeks ago in their locker with locations they better visit, and that she has somebody watching them. It is all planned out from her side, but Clay really doesn´t understand why he is on the list. He actually liked Hannah and wanted to get to know her, but was too shy. But he is curious and scared so he starts to listen. After starting to listen he goes to his friend Tony´s house to borrow a walkman, but end up just taking it first without asking.

The 1. person is Justin Foley. He was Hannah´s first kiss and it all went well until he started bragging about it, and then a lot of rumors started at school. - she here tells the person to go to a spot, her old house.

The 2. person is Alex Standall. He has a thing of making lists with hot or not people, and Hannah was on that as the person with the best ass, this gives people a reason to grab people. She then tells the person to go to - Blue Spot Liquor on the map, where you can she an example. She tells that a person that has a whole tape to himself came in there one day while she was there and grabed her ass, her wrist and told her to relax about it, but who does that? She is not his property.

The 3. person is Jessica Davis. Who was on the not hot ass list made by Alex. Hannah met her, her freshman year one weak before school, they were both new and the guidance counselor thought they could help each other. The 2 of them went to Monet´s Garden Cafe & Coffeehouse - the next place on the map there they met Alex he was also new and they talked. They had each other to talk to, and then suddenly Alex dropped out and then Jessica and they stopped talking. One day after the list came out, Jessica wanted to meet at the cafe, she tells Hannah that she knows the rumors about her and Alex. (Justin started the first, so the second must be true too)
Hannah tells her that they aren´t true and that she is not the reason Jessica and Alex broke up. To get on with it Hannah takes the blame, Jessica sees it as an oppotunity and start a cat fight, where they both after have scars
The 4. person is Tyler Down. A Peeping Tom. So Hannah has done the same to him as she tapped Tyler´s story, she is outside his window - so the next place to go is Tyler´s home Hannah was home alone when her parents were on vacation, and when she was about to go to bed she hear a camera take a picture outside her window, but was afraid to look. The next day she ask a girl if she can sleep at her house and at night they almost catches The Tom, so the next day at school where they where last night, and Tyler gives himself away with his answer. Tyler invated her privacy.

Clay goes from place to place all night, when he is at the cafe he finds a book with a picture of Hannah and Courtney, who is looking nervous at a party with their arms around each other. When he gets to Tyler house, his window is broken and a guy from school Marcus Cooley is there. He finds out Marcus is on the list and that he and 3 other person who has had the tappes has done this to his window because he is Peeping Tom.

The 5. person is Courtney Crimsen. The girl Hannah took with her home to expose Tyler. and Coutney is a people user, always sweet, but uses people. After the Tyler thing, she ignores Hannah, until one day there is a party and Courtney tells her they should go together and that Hannah should pick her up. - So the next place is Courtney´s home. so they go to the party, but Courtney quickly disappear and a guy comes up tp Hannah and tells that Courtney has told that Hannah is fun to hang out with, and that she has some fun things in her closet. Tyler is there so Hannah tells him to take a picture of her and Courtney. And Courtney ONLY USES people, then throws them away.

The 6. person is Marcus Cooley. Who is friends with Alex now, so Hannah is a little vary. He gets Hannah´s number because at that time at the school there was a funraiser for cheer camp called OH MY DOLLAR VALENTINE, where you where matched with people if you applied. He calls her and she agree to a date after school, which brings us to the next place - Rosie´s Diner. Marcus doesn´t show up until late and said that he thought they were joking, but he turned around on his way hom JUST IN CASE. He then tries to kiss and grab her against her will and leaves telling her she is a tease.

After this with Marcus and Zach, Hannah did on the same day go to get her hair cut very short. And at that time Hannah is really long out, that she need the notes that Zach takes. She also leaves a note in the teachers bag, and ask if they can talk about suicide, because deep down Hannah has had that thought going on recently

The 7. person is Zach Dempsey. After Marcus leaves Zach comes by her booth and tries to talk to her, but Hannah can´t. Afterwards she hears his friends teasing her for not getting at date with her, and he doesn´t said anything. But that didn´t mean he didn´t do anything. she finds out that someone is stealing her bag of encouragement from peer communications class, and caughts Zach in doing it. But he doesn´t even explaines, Like Hannah isn´t worth giving an explanation.

The 8. person is Ryan Shaver - Next place to go is public library Hannah joined a poetry group, because she loved poetry and Ryan Shaver a guy on her school who is the editor of a school paper. He post things that he finds, but with Hannah he doesn´t do that, And then he steals one of Hannah´s poems, and the poem gets really popular on a good and bad way.

Tony shows up at Rosie´s diner and eat, when he is done he waits in his car til the diner closes and Clay leaves. He tells Clay to get in, and that Tony is the one with the extra tappes and that he wants Clay to listen to tape nummer 9, that he is at now, while staying in the car. They then drives to the next location. Tony also knows that it is his walkman and that Clay took it

The 9. person is Clay. But Hannah soon tells that his name doesn´t belong on the list, not in the same way. And Hannah then starts to talk about the party, where the two of them connected. - Which brings us to Five-Twelve Cottonwood. They talked and kisses, but Hannah pulls away and tells Clay to leave her alone. Clay leaves and end of story. Clay could have reach out to her, but she had set up her mind. So they both have some blame.

The 10. person is the Reaper who probably is Bryce - and Justin, but they can´t send the tapes to Justin becausse he has already has them´, and if the reaper knew he would leave. After Clay leaves the room they are in, Hannah is on the floor in the dark. Jessica and Justin comes in kissing, but Jessica passes out so Justin leaves. Justin friend come in and rapes Jessica, and Justin just let it happen, and Hannah is sitting in the closet.

The 11. person is Jenny Kurtz. The cheerleader we met earlier with Marcus. After the above she drives Hannah home, but drives into a stop sign and kicks Hannah out of the car. This ruined stop sign causes an accident with a senior from their school and a old man. They both could have stopped it but didn´t. - This time we go to the stop sign.

Clay witnessed this accident, and he helped the old man home to his house, a house that was Hannah´s first house when she moved to town. After this Hannah starts planning her own funeral.

The 12. person is Bryce Walker. The weekend after The Party there was another at Courtney house, Hannah didn´t go but came to check on people later. She fund Bryce and Courtney´s afterparty in a hottub, and Hannah joined them. A little while after Courtney went, knowing what was going to happen, and then Bryce sexually abused her. And Hannah let it happen, because she had already given up.

The 13. person is Mr. Porter. Their english teacher. He is the new guidance counseler and Hannah tries to talk to him, give herself one last chance, but the teacher tells her that she just need to move on.

I the beginning of the book, you heard of Clay sending the package with tappes to Jenny at the post office, and he comes late for school, for english. He then see Skye a loner, and i think that he may think that she will do the same as Hannah, so he walk up to her.

This book is the best "can happen in real life book" i have ever read. It was so good and exiting and you just sit on the edge through the whole book. But you also sit on the edge because, what has Clay done? Because he really can say that he hasn´t done anything, so when it comes to Clay´s turn, i just wanted to run a mile, because of all the energi i had built of inside. Now for 2 characters Clay and Hannah. I thought they were both really good and believable. I loved Hannah´s spirit in this book. I mean the way she tells the story esspecially at first, she is not sorry for herself, she is holding her head high and stuff. She really has humor and is a really strong pérson if you ask me, taping the tapes and planning it all. I really loved her, but what i didn´t thought was fair was that i felt that she somehow blames Clay of some things, eventhough he was her friend through it all, he never did anything to harm her, he was just to shy to get to know her better. It was an amazing book, eventhough it is about a suicide. It had a lot of suspence and was so exiting. But the book could be really complicated at times, because there are so many stories going on and hitting secrets and stuff, so you really got to read the lines and in between right and good. It is just a book that is too impossible to put down, you just get suck right in to it and don´t wanna get out.

Grade: 12


Remember To Check Out: http://hannahsreasons.blogspot.com - To Hear Hannah´s Tapes