luizahoefel

I had to mentally prepare myself to read this story. Suicide is a topic that almost everyone, myself included, tends to shy away from. Asher uses the unique format of audiotapes in the style of an audiotour to tell Hannah’s story and utilizes a double narration style that is almost haunting because you know how one person’s– Hannah’s– story will end, no matter what other twists and turns the story may take. Both voices: Hannah and Clay ring extremely authentic. Hannah is a girl with who is angry that no one cared enough (in her eyes), a girl who has given up, and a girl with an understandably macabre sense of humor. And Clay is a boy that liked her who is horrified that he may have somehow caused her to kill herself. This book makes you second-guess how you treat everyone around you. It makes you realize how one move that you think inconsequential may affect someone else deeply. Rating: 5. This book is in a class all its own.

2023-02-08 12:03