Playlist for the Dead
Author: Michelle Falkoff
Publication Date: January 27th 2015
Publisher: HarperTeen
~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
A teenage boy tries to understand his best friend's suicide by listening to the playlist of songs he left behind in this smart, voice-driven debut novel.
Here's what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, and a suicide note: For Sam—listen and you'll understand.
As he listens to song after song, Sam tries to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it's only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him that he will finally be able to piece together his best friend’s story. And maybe have a chance to change his own.
Part mystery, part love story, and part coming-of-age tale in the vein of Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Tim Tharp’s The Spectacular Now, Playlist for the Dead is an honest and gut-wrenching first novel about loss, rage, what it feels like to outgrow a friendship that's always defined you—and the struggle to redefine yourself. But above all, it's about finding hope when hope seems like the hardest thing to find.
WHY ARE THESE ONES SO HARD TO REVIEW?
So I'll get straight
to the point.
I didn't love it.
I didn't hate it.
Again, I'm in middle ground territory and I freaking hate that, and the fact that I so wanted
to love it, it's very music orientated as well, and come on, that's perfect for
me, which makes me dislike it more because I didn't love it. But, that's not
down to the story, or the message behind the story.
