13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher

13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
You can’t stop the future. 
You can’t rewind the past.
The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. 
                
Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever. (via Amazon)

Positives:
1. Suicide is an important topic that needs to be discussed
2. Tapes are a very interesting way to have the story be told
3. Very powerful emotions towards the end (I did not cry)
4. Map's are helpful
5. Characters
6. How everything fits together

Negatives:
1. Up until Clay's tape, I felt that the emotion was being told rather than shown
2. Occasionally, I would completely space out pages, and then have to re-read them. This may be due to how I was reading it, but if it wasn't, this is a warning.
3. I was disappointing how Clay fit into it all, for me
4. It wasn't my favorite book that dealt with the topic of suicide, and I felt like it romanticized it just a little. I am an idiot about this, though, so if you think it was perfect, it was perfect. I do love My Heart and Other Black Holes so much more though (it's very different, enough not to be compared, but whatever). This is on the same lines as The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand is for me.