The main plot of the story is that a girl named Hannah Baker had committed suicide and two weeks later her friend Clay Jenson received thirteen video tapes that was recorded by Hannah Baker before she died. The video types are each aimed at a specific person who had caused her to commit suicide and then once each person had listened to the types they had pass the type on to the next person.
I liked the pace and the writing style of this book however at times the text between the video type of Hannah speaking and Clay were hard to differentiate between but apart from that the book flowed well with stories linking to each other and kept me interested.
At the beginning I felt the reason for her committing suicide was petty and something that most people will go though in their school live some of the reasons got more shocking in later types however I still do not feel that it was enough to commit suicide in my opinion.
My favourite character in the book was Clay as you really felt sorry for him and emphasized with him throughout.I felt more sorry for him at the end of the book than Hannah which I'm not sure the author intended us to be positioned but I still at the end of reading this book don't see a stand out moment that made Hannah kill herself as some of the other characters had worse done to them and Hannah just witnessed these events.
I will give this book a 3.5 as I would recommend this book to read and I enjoyed it but it seemed to me that Hannah wad after attention and that's the only reason I can think of for her killing herself as the events she goes though many other people will but will not commit suicide because of this (I wouldn't think). I was a bit disappointed which is why it does not receive 4 stars as I feel there could have been deeper issues for Hannah to die and this would have made the book more (enjoyable?) and hard hitting/effecting to the audience.
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