Post by Emily on Dec 30, 2011 13:10:38 GMT -5
Book Title: Thirteen Reasons Why
Author: Jay Asher
Published By: RAZORBILL (The Penguin Group)
Genre: Young Adult
Recommended Age: 15+ (really depends upon the parents choice)
Reviewed By: Emily Tuley / AngelsCryHavoc
Blog Reviewed For: Great Minds Think Aloud Literary Community
Rating: 5 Ravens
This book blew me away, I have to give it to the author it was touching and emotional. I felt as if I was living the tapes and words right along with Clay and I hurt emotionally for Hannah as well. To genuinely feel and know what they both were going through as the events that lead to Hannah’s suicide unfold it’s hard not to feel anger, sadness, happiness, and even a little remorse for the inevitable outcome of all of this but at the end there is that spark that hope that moment in time when Clay realizes that he can help stop another Hannah from happening with Skye.
The book is about thirteen tapes, and thirteen reasons why Hannah commits suicide how she tried for help and was failed each time how sometimes we as the humans we are and yes we are flawed overlook the simplest of things cause we are to busy and to caught up with our own lives that we take others for granted and what they themselves might be going through. I have noticed myself the callousness that has seemed to rip through our youth I think back to times when I was in school with the bullying and situations that happened people would have stepped up and stopped it. I was lucky No one would have ever told me to Suck it up and move on.
This book is a very good moral setting it tells the young adult and reader that age old scientific method for ever action there is an opposite or equal reaction and that no matter what you say or do it always affects someone. Yes, In Hannah’s own words the snowball affect. Everything just keeps rolling down hill and getting bigger.
If you haven’t read this book please, please do and share it share it with your daughter your son whoever you can get to read it. Maybe we can all get that message out there even if it changes one person or everyone. Amazingly done my hats off to the author.