Thirteen Reasons Why...

On Twitter, I stumbled upon this link promoting the Netflix Original Series 'Thirteen Reasons Why' based on the Young Adult book by Jay Asher. Now I'm not a subscriber of Netflix, but the Kindle edition of the book costs Rs.249.85, which sounds well worth it, if you ask me, based on the storyline, which sounds promising. I'm yet to read it.

The tagline for the story is "You can't stop the future, you can't rewind the past, the only way to learn the secret is to press play'.

It got a 4/5 rating on Goodreads and was originally published in 2007 by RazorBill, a YA imprint of Penguin Books. In July 2011, the paperback edition was # 1 on the NYT Bestseller list.

It's about Hannah who commits suicide because she is carrying a heavy burden caused by an inability to speak up. So she carries dark secrets in her heart and stumbles through life as everyone takes advantage of her, deceives her and betrays her trust time after time until she takes her own life. Clay Jensen who receives thirteen cassette tapes recorded by her, is a shy high-school student, who, after viewing the tapes, understands why Hannah took her own life and immediately reaches out to Skye, a suicidal young friend.

In a time when people do dark misdeeds and infringe on other people's privacy, this summary highlights the fact that there is only so much that a person can take before it gets too much.

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