REVIEW: Thirteen Reasons Why

02/05	marked as:	currently-reading
02/07	page 60		19.0%	"I really don't enjoy Hannah. I'm intrigued, but I also just very much despise this protagonist."
02/10	page 120		39.0%	"Really annoyed by Hannah. Her voice is very whiny her problems are very overly dramatized."
02/10	page 200		65.0%	"Still annoyed. This protagonists voice is so hard to like!"
02/14	marked as:	read

Thirteen Reasons Why is easily, and unfortunately my least-favorite book of the year so far. 

I spend the majority of the novel being just very annoyed at the girl protagonist. I felt like the whole novel was very immature, which it should not have been since it deals with a very serious and important subject matter. Our girl protagonist comes off as very whiny and over-dramatic. I felt annoyed instead of sympathic. 

The characters were most definitely the weakest part of this book when they should have been the strongest part. 

I understand that her problems are meant to be a "build up" but honestly? A boy said you had a nice butt? A girl got mad at you for liking another boy? There were literally chapters focusing on the aforementioned topics. It was all very teeny-boppy. 

Perhaps if I read this when I was younger I would enjoy it more. Or maybe I should not have been expecting a deep, serious book. I was extremely let down and annoyed at this read. Ugh.