"You don't know what goes on in anyone's life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person's life, you're not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can't be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person's life, you're messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything." 
 I absolutely love the concept of the book! The theme is kinda heavy but I feel like the author did a very good job and he really showed how suicides affect the people who new the person. I really want to give this books 5 stars because I found the tapes so ingenious but sadly I didn't quite live up to my expectations. I wish we had gotten to know Clay a little better so we could understand his suffering a bit more. This might be unfair of me since I'm comparing it to the series (which I love!) where Clay's suffering and story was so much more prominent. Reading the book I knew I was supposed to be sad but I just couldn't feel it. I didn't connect with book Clay as much as I connected with movie Clay and I had a hard time relating to his emotions in the book. 
 It also didn't help that one of my favourite characters from the series, Tony, only played a tiny, tiny part in the book. We didn't get to know him and he didn't really have a relationship with Clay which was actually the saddest thing for me while reading the book (Yes, I feel like a terrible person writing that). 
 This book really taught me how important the first part of the book is, where you primarily get to know, and build up a relationship to the protagonist and other important characters. I missed getting this relation in the book and it, sadly, ruined the hole book for me. Unlike with the series I wasn't an emotional wreak at the end... 
 That being said, it is a great book and I read through it exceptionally fast being such an intense novel.