13 Reasons Why: Quarter 3

I read 13 Reason Why by Jay Asher. Clay(narrator) receives a package of old cassette tapes one day on his doorstep. He puts them in and begins to hear a voice that belongs to Hannah. Hannah committed suicide a couple of weeks ago. On these tapes are thirteen people that in some way made her come to this decision and she talks about each one. All these tapes are passed around to each person, as they listen to each one they discover who Hannah really was and not at all the rumors that everyone followed.
I would recommend this book because it unraveled the truth. Everybody on the tapes linked to each other one by one exposing who they really are and what they did. Also the rumors that Hannah had to deal with were made by some of those people like Justin which was what her reputation was built around. Nobody wanted to get to know her for real because they were afraid of those rumors but in the end all she wanted was a real friend and not someone who judged her which was Clay.
Clay mostly decides to believe what he has heard but after a while of working in movie theater together he sees that she is different and they get to know each other too. Even though Clay is on the tapes he doesn't belong on them, Hannah admits she just wants him to know how much he meant to her. But he keeps following everyone else finding out the secrets.
There is a lot of suspense that builds up to the end of the tapes. As Hannah described it, its like a snowball that's rolling downhill that keeps getting bigger and bigger until finally it is too big and she can't take it anymore. That is where she gives up on life also where the tapes end. Even though she is already dead when she talks to the people on the tapes it doesn't seem real until they are all over. Clay is always saying what he should have done to save her how he could of been there for her. There were all the signs that she was depressed but he never picked them up. The only thing he can do now and the rest of them is listen because no one can change the past.