THIS REVIEW INCLUDES SOME TINY SPOILERS. I TRIED REALLY REALLY HARD NOT TO INCLUDE THEM, BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. 
 I have to start by saying that this book IS NOT PERFECT. And I loved this book, so I went and looked at what other people thought and that encouraged me to write a review. 
 While I did love this book, I had many problems with it. And maybe it's because I personally have not experienced seriously considering suicide, but I know people who have and I know someone who took their life. This book hurt me in ways that I can't really explain, and I found myself crying at random parts throughout the book, and by the end of it I was so broken that I didn't know what to do and couldn't read another book for a few days. I wasn't hurt because Hannah Baker killed herself; no. We all know that. We all know she's killed herself. It's just the way it happened and how the whole thing affected Clay. 
 I get that Hannah had problems in her life, we all do. And I have no right to judge whether what these people did to her made it "okay" for her to take her life or not. I don't know enough about suicide to say whether or not the way she was acting on her tapes is accurate to those who seriously consider suicide. But I know there were signs that she was thinking about it, and it bothered me that no one reached out to her. 
 It also bothered me that she sat around blaming everyone else for the reasons why she wanted to take her life. Sure, they hurt her and sure they made her feel worthless, but ultimately it was HER decision to do it. And I think she sent the tapes to too many people; reading the tapes I felt like not everyone on that list deserved to be on that list. Zach, maybe, because he hurt her at the time in her life when she needed someone the most (but again, how was he to know this?). But to include what happened to Jessica and that SHE DIDN'T STOP IT was just plan rude. 
 Also, her relentless slamming of Jessica was extremely unfair. And of Courtney. Personally, I didn't see anything wrong with what initially happened between Hannah and each of these girls; and by that I mean I don't see the "big deal" in how their friendships ended and why it affected Hannah as much as it did. It seemed pretty ordinary to me because people change and things happen. But I guess maybe things happened after that that aren't covered by Hannah's tapes or maybe it was just that nothing got resolved and everything was so rushed which is why Hannah pinpointed her reason for dedicating tapes to these girls solely on the reason why they stopped being friends (I hope this sentence makes senses). 
 I felt for Clay. I really did. I felt like Clay was the perfect guy and I really didn't think he deserved to sit there and listen to all those tapes; Hannah HAD to know Clay had feelings for her, so why ruin that by putting him through all this? She could have just written him a note apologizing for that night and briefly saying what was going on in her mind. Just something simple like, "I'm sorry, Clay, but I can't do this; my past won't stop creeping up and it's hurting me too much." I think that would have solved all the problems with Clay and he would have been able to be happy. He even said in the book he hadn't even missed her that much until he listened to the tapes in the car with Tony. 
 Above all, I felt that Hannah was really selfish and she read too much into actions. The way she analyzed one sentence the ass-grabbing boy said was ridiculous. There is no way any normal girl would read THAT much into one sentence. Or pretty much any sentence and action; the way she read into those were crazy. And this is coming from a girl who over analyzes EVERYTHING and over-thinks EVERYTHING, and if that ass-grabbing boy had said that to me I would definitely had NOT thought it through the way Hannah did. 
 Every part that had Clay, all of his reactions, all of his side stories, I loved. I loved Clay because he felt like a real person. I liked parts of Hannah's personality, how witty she was, on the tapes, but other than that I thought she was bitch. I'm not saying she deserved everything that happened to her, but I think, like I said, she read into everything too much and made every little thing something personal so that she could blame everyone else and not see that she is mostly to blame. 
 I'm not belittling suicide, and I'm sorry if my review made it seem like I am. I'm sorry. 
 I did like this book a lot though, even though my review kinda sounds like I hated it. No, it was beautifully written and at some parts (especially the chapter when Hannah was describing catching the peeping tom) I was laughing out loud. And some parts (Clay's tape, namely) I was crying. I do wish she had said more TO CLAY on CLAY'S tape instead of mentioning him and then describing everything else going on in her life. 
 Overall, I did enjoy this book very much and it's more proof to me that we need to absolutely be aware of how everyone around us is doing and how we treat them. But for a first novel, I think Jay Asher did a great job. Kudos, man! The layout of this book and the overall idea of this book was amazing, so good job Mr. Asher.