rachelelizabeth's Reviews (1.21k)

Yet another YA book I couldn't put down. Jay Asher does a fantastic job of weaving Hannah's cassette tape narrative with Clay's reactions and memories. Although sometimes Clay's story sometimes intersected with Hannah's and made things confusing, this story was so intriguing. As someone who has had suicidal thoughts and everything this book was extremely relateable. To anyone who says that her reasons for killing herself were not plausible then you would be wrong. Everyone has a different breaking point, and Hannah's was very understandable. Couldn't recommend this book more, treat others kindly guys.

Well I'm crying.

I don't like non fiction, and I don't really read a lot of it, until I read this book and became slightly obsessed with the way Krakauer writes. Obsessed meaning that I bought every book he's written for my Kindle. I have this thing about FLDS and LDS that just intrigues me, and I want to read about it. I didn't find it extremely harsh, except for the True Crime parts, and I found the parts about the LDS faith pretty straight forward and honest. It was a page turner, and I never really understood how a non fiction book could be that, but it was, and now I'm obsessed with Krakauer and it's not healthy.