Reading up a storm

I’d seen this book in a lot of ads in School Library Journal and I wasn’t sure what it was about. I just know it seems to go out a lot from our teen area. As I do with a lot of books I don’t know a lot about, I decided to listen to it as an audiobook.

Clay receives a box of tapes. In the box are seven tapes recorded by Hannah Baker. Hannah committed suicide two weeks before. On these tapes Hannah describes the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide. It turns out that there are thirteen people who are the thirteen reasons. Clay is one of them. He spends a haunting evening listening to all seven tapes (one side for each reason).

This was an amazing audiobook. There are two readers on the audiobook, one is the voice of Clay and one is the voice of Hannah. I was so wrapped up in the story that I checked out the book from the library but it didn’t have the same effect that the audiobook did. I highly recommend the audiobook for this book.