Finally, it got better and I couldn’t put it down anymore. There were so many things bothering me, but I wanted to know what happened so I kept reading. The first part didn’t catch my attention, which made it difficult to read through. VerdictĪt first, I had trouble with this book. Not the “did they try to murder their friend or not” part, ofcourse. Can you trust your friends? How far would you go to break up a friendship? Pinborough gives us a peek into teenage group dynamics, that I kind of recognize from my own time as a teenager. The main theme of 13 Minutes is friendship and trust. In some books it takes a while to figure out who’s perspective is used for the current chapter, but Pinborough made this very easy for us.

This change in mode of communication makes it very clear who we are following at the moment. Natasha’s world is available to us through a diary, and then there are the transcripts of interrogations by the police, who are trying to figure out whether it was an accident or not. The reader learns about Becca in the standard way most books are written, but only gets a peek into Jenny and Hayley through their texts. The question is, do they really want to know? About the bookġ3 Minutes describes the thoughts and feelings of teenage girls with different methods. Together they try to figure out what happened and what the roles of Jenny and Hayley were in this accident. She reconnects with Rebecca, her former best friend. With her memory loss, it is impossible to find out how she ended up in the water. Natasha almost drowned in an ice cold river, being clinically dead for 13 minutes. But after her accident, she can’t remember what happened the last day before her swim in the icy water.

Being the number one it-girl, Natasha gets all the attention she needs. The book centers around Natasha, her former best friend Rebecca, and the current it-girls Jenny and Hayley. Let the story of these teenage girls pull you under water… About the story (no spoilers) Get ready for some icy chills if you’re planning to read 13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough, and not only because it is about a girl almost drowning in a river in the middle of winter.

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