Great Reads...

Okay, I started and finished reading two books this weekend. One was Generation Dead, written by Daniel Waters and the other was Thirteen Reasons Why, written by Jay Asher.

Generation Dead--this book is kind of different than your average fantasy book. In brief, it's about a live girl who falls for a living-impaired boy (in other words, a zombie) and she has to face the prejudice the people in her town have on these living-impaired people. (B-)

Next! Thirteen Reasons Why. OMG. When I started reading this book, I thought it was a little bit slow, however, it quickly picked up speed. This book is about a girl who had committed suicide--Hannah Baker. Before everything happens, one of the main characters, the narrator, received a package in the mail. In that package are 7 cassette tapes and each side is labeled with a number, going from 1-13. It turns out that the tapes are recorded by the Hannah Baker. She starts the tape by explaining that whoever (13 people in all) receives the tapes in the mail are somehow responsible or associated with the reasons for her death. The first narrator is Clay Jensen. Clay has no idea why he's on Hannah's list. He would never want to harm her, she was his crush.
So throughout this book, Clay is learning more about the people who he goes to school with and finds that there are things about people he never knew about and would never find out about without the cassettes. While listening to the tapes, he finds out that he's delving into Hannah's mind and he goes through the events that are heart-wrenching, agonizing, frustrating, and sweet, along with what Hannah went through. (A) must read book!