Thirteen Reasons Why

Cathryn says: Haunting, gripping, riveting, heartbreaking, challenging, thought provoking, devastating, enthralling, tragic, unforgettable, poignant, affecting, hopeful…

There are 13 reasons why Hanna Baker committed suicide, and thirteen people who are going to find out what part they played her decision. Over the course of one night Clay Jensen will learn all of their secrets and the part that he played in her choice.

Told in alternating voices as Clay listens to recordings Hanna left behind the reader is given a voyeuristic glimpse into Hanna’s high school experience and the little things that pile up driving her to her decision.

Once I started this story I could not stop until I heard Hanna’s final words and found out where the journey would lead Clay.

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Cathryn says:  Welcome to The Gallagher Academy for exceptional girls, or as the students like to think of it spy high. Main character Cammie Morgan is brilliant and a CIA legacy, her mother and father were both spies, but when her father failed to return from a mission, mom decided to play it safe and take a job as the Headmistress of the elite private academy.

Cammie and her friends can speak 14 different languages and build a high tech surveillance system but they have no idea how to be normal teens. The one language this super genius can’t seem to comprehend is ‘boy’, and it is driving her crazy.

On her very first a training exercise for Covert Operations, trailing one of their own teachers in town she runs into Josh a regular teen boy and does what she has been trained to do, lie. Making up an entire life for herself to keep him from finding out the truth about Gallagher, then putting her training to work to make sure he is who he says he is, Cammie and her cohorts get in a bit over their heads.

This is the start to a great series; it is funny and touching with lots of cool spy stuff and adventure at every turn. It features strong female characters who are not perfect but can take care of themselves and their friends, they are also endearing in that boys are like an alien world to them but they are not all boy crazy, there is no drinking or drugs which is rather refreshing in this genre.

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