Hey guys, it's Adventure Van here with a blog about the book 'Thirteen Reasons Why', which is about a girl who kills herself and sends a series of 13 tapes to everyone she blames for it. Reading it, we follow the story of Clay who is sent these tapes, and watch him react and deal as each tape tells a different story about why she killed herself. We end up seeing two stories played out, both in realtime but one without any way to change the events.
The 13 tapes are the 'chapters', each working as Hannah, the girl, talks thru the tapes about her story before she decided to end her life. Meanwhile, Clay, a person who was sent these tapes thru the mail, listens to them in an emotional hurricane of feelings, while going to places that the story's events happened. As the tapes go on, you get to see from her view point everyone she met, including Clay himself. As much as they're the tapes of someone who would kill herself days later, you can see the humanity shining thru, laughing and crying with both Hannah and Clay.
It's an awesome book, heartfelt, and with the two different endings doing entire twists to the story. Since it's also an Netflix series, you can even watch it if you're too lazy to just read it yourself. It's a pretty dense and serious read and series, though, so don't expect it to be light hearted.
That's Adventure Van, signing out.
(This blog was done for the Mayor's Reading Challenge.)
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