#58: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Asher is a good writer and I’m really interested to see what he comes up with next, but Thirteen Reasons Why felt like a disappointment, because I think it’s a bit of a cop-out that our narrator is the only person on Hannah Baker’s pre-suicide blame-game tapes that didn’t actually do anything wrong, and on the whole, though there are as many types of suicide and reasons for suicide as there are people who are suicidal, I didn’t really buy Hannah as suicidal, I felt that her mind was too organized—she was angry, yes, and that was interesting, but I didn’t feel like she was the type of person who would kill herself, and ALSO she was totes unsympathetic, especially when she basically tricked her teacher into “making” her take her own life.
