13 Reasons Why

I learned about the book while browsing one of my Candy Magazine's back issues. I remember reading the synopsis once and promised myself to read it, but it has always been hard to find. And due to boredom, persistence and the urge to read, I looked for the book last weekend, and glad to finish it today.

I'm not into books centered on mysteries, but this book was something worth the read. I love that the author (Jay Asher) used a guy as narrator and did not use the usual girl-who-talks-and-narrates-about-her-story type of writing. I also loved the idea of using audio tapes, it gives more mysterious/vintage/suspense effect on the story, and considering these days? Who uses audio tapes when there are compact disks and mp3s? And using suicide as the theme for a book makes it interesting as well, it's a social problem, but the author focused on its effect on a normal teenager. Other issues were tackled as well, there were rumors, bullying, alcohol, parties, sex and reputations.

Somehow the book reminds me of a former movie of Alexa Vega, called Odd Girl Out. I just finished the book this morning and I closed it with a heavy feeling, this feeling stayed with me the whole time I was reading the book. There were a lot of regrets, especially on the part of Clay (and Hannah), a lot of if only(s) and had I(s). I just can't imagine how something like that was planned, and most especially, I can't accept the idea of everyone acting pretty normal after all the troubles caused to a girl.

P.S. As usual, I searched for a possible movie-to-be of the book and found that there's a possibility and "the" Hannah, according to this article is Selena Gomez, seriously? I have nothing against her, but I hope that proper casting be given to such an amazing book, she's just far from how I imagined Hannah. I hope that they pick another actress, someone "more" fitted to be Hannah. And please choose a good actor for "Clay".