Thirteen Reasons Why

I... I'm not quite sure how I feel. I read it quite quickly. I liked it, but I feel like it was missing something. It has very dark, sad subject matter, but I loved the last book I read (Love Is the Higher Law) and it had sad subject matter as well. The difference between these two books, though, is that I finished Love Is the Higher Law - and even It's Kind of a Funny Story, which is also about a suicidal teen - feeling uplifted, and I finished this feeling like I just read a good story, but emotionally deflated. I suppose that's fitting though. It's real.

Summary: The novel centers on the post-mortem narrative that Hannah Baker has recorded for a select group of acquaintances to hear. Although Hannah’s story only surfaces after her death, the recordings retrospectively demonstrate the ways in which Hannah, over the course of a few years, developed from a relatively happy young girl to someone who committed suicide. The book is told through the eyes of Clay Jensen, one of the people for whom Hannah left a tape.