Description: Clay
Jensen, the protagonist, comes home from school one day to find a box
of audio tapes on his porch. They are recorded by a classmate,
Hannah Baker, who died two weeks prior. The tapes tell about her
life, the parts played by thirteen people, and why she decided to
kill herself.
Plot: The book enfolds
mostly over a 24 hour period. Clay listens to the tapes and learns
why he and twelve other people contributed to the suicide of Hannah
Baker.
Characterization: The
characters are well developed and sound just like high school
students.
Setting: A small town,
not specifically named [that I noticed] but the theater was called
Crestmont Theater. Most of the book takes place in one night at
various locations throughout the town.
Other: This was an
emotional read. Not what I usually enjoy reading, but I did like
this book.
Overall: The way the
book was organized was really unusual. Hannah “talking” on the
tapes was printed in italics, and Clay's response and what he was
doing were in regular type. The book alternated, sometimes as often
as every other line, between Hannah on the tapes and Clay's immediate
response. In the E-book version I read, there were no paragraph
breaks or indentations. All lines were flush left. But it worked.
Grade: A-
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