I leave this review with saying well done to Jay Asher.
But it's the element where Hannah, even though she's dead throughout the entire storyline, is still present, that makes Thirteen Reasons Why as mystifying as it is. If it were just a book about why a girl committed suicide, then this book probably wouldn't have been as interesting as it is. Why did I tell you that? Because I think that's the twist that makes this book what it is. He found it strange that something non-present knew what they were talking about and it correlated to what you were looking at. However, in the '13 Questions' interview at the end, the author, Jay Asher, said that he got the idea for this book from the multimedia guides you get in museums. It makes it harder to follow, as Clay is also providing his own commentary. The idea of using symbols to mark where the tapes are playing or not is good, and the use of the cassette numbers and Side A or B to mark chapters is also pretty nice, but the fact that whatever Hannah is saying is marked in italics really puts me off as well.
I was a bit put off by the layout of this book. Tragedy is just the one word reason as to why I'm doing that. Weirdly, I also find myself comparing this book to A Song For Ella Grey. Paper Towns by John Green was one of the first, as he trails around after this girl in the many different places she's marked and the clues she's left. Whilst reading this book, I picked up scents of a few other books that I couldn't help but compare Thirteen Reasons Why to. The only reason he got the tapes? Because he's one of the reasons Hannah killed herself.
He steals a Walkman and spends the night trailing across the city listening to these tapes. I tell a lie, the parcel has actually been sent from someone different who is featured on the tapes. Inside are several tapes, each with recordings of the thirteen reasons why she killed herself. Clay Jensen receives a parcel one day from Hannah Baker, who two weeks earlier, committed suicide.
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