Title: Thirteen Reasons Why

Author: Jay Asher

Publisher: Penguin 2011

Genre: YA Contemporary

Pages: 316

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Fall into Reading; NPR Teen; Top 100 YA; Ebook; New Author

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate and crush - who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and learns the truth about himself-a truth he never wanted to face.

Not super excited about this one. I can see it was good book. It has interesting characters. It has an intriguing storyline. It hits at some hard topics. But I feel like I'm just a little too old to truly love this one. As an added note I was very confused about the switching from Hannah talking and Clay thinking. Maybe it was just my ebook version, but there was no distinction between the two. After awhile I was over the structure.