Review: Thirteen Reasons Why

I wasn't going to review this book since I didn't finish it. Then I figured, what kind of reviewer would I be if I only reviewed books that I thought were good? If a book is good, I should tell you, and if a book is bad, I should tell you that too. It's my 'responsibility'.

So. Thirteen Reasons Why. It's about a girl that records thirteen tapes that get passed around to thirteen people that have affected her life in some way or another since she moved to the town in which Clay, the main character, resides. She only sends the tapes to the first person, though, after she's committed suicide. It's a really great idea for a book, and I don't think that it was a bad book, or would have been if I would have gotten through it. I just found it redundant. Each chapter was a tape, and you listened to the whole thing. So, every chapter was a story, a good one at that, but it was the same basic story. New tape, new story, new way someone hurt her.

Another thing I may not have liked about it is that even though it seemed sort of like a novel more for girls, it was first person from a guy's perspective. I have a tendency to shy away from books from that perspective (one of the reasons Book Jacob of Breaking Dawn is so tough for me to get through), but I figured I would try this one, since I'd heard it was good. I guess that was a mistake on my part.

I'm currently reading a book called This Fine Life by Eva Marie Everson. It's pretty good so far, and it looks like I'll be reviewing that soon. So keep an eye out for that and more reviews (maybe for The Vow!!!) coming soon.