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Aug 01, 2017luxedystopia rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I found the main character, Clay, very relate-able. His emotional processing throughout listening to the tapes revealed he had a conscience. The young woman had it bad but other teens and adults go through much worse and live. The way an initial rumor becomes a monster of its own is an evil unto itself. The very oddest thing I found in the book was the total lack of Internet or computers. Hannah did not say anything about going online and neither did Clay or any of the other characters. You would think a person who committed suicide would have gotten some online harassment but no one, including her seems to have a computer. This book could have been written in 1985. I also got the idea this town was a depressed area in the Midwest, not the upper middle class teens you usually see in books and on TV. Also, who goes to a liquor store to buy candy? There was a reference that Hannah had a bad experience in her old town/school but it was never expanded on, like, she was making a fresh start and it backfired.