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jovanas_cloud's review
3.0
Brzo za čitanje i zanjimljivo, ali s obzirom na temu nema ništa inovativno u knjizi. Po meni završilo se savršeno kliše. Najveći zlikovac je postao zao jer je neshvaćen, njegovi pomoćnici su ostali zli i prestali su da se druže sa glavnim. Glavni lik je neki detektiv, ništa ne shavata u početku ali mu u poslednjem trenutku bude sve jasno i da ne nastavljam da nabrajam. Može se pročitati u jednom danu, ali sam ja bila previše lenja pa haha malo sutra ću najlakše štivo pročitati najbrže.
saskia_pierre's review against another edition
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25
I found this book boring and predictable.
ksonnev's review
2.0
I think, like most people, I didn't find this book bad, but I also didn't find it very good. It centres around an important theme of suicide and has an interesting premise (by this, I mean the playlist), however I didn't find it very captivating or thought provoking.
I felt the playlist idea was interesting and could have been this great, intriguing thing (kind of like the cassette tapes in 13 Reasons Why), but I felt the author just let it slip by. If the songs were so important, why didn't we learn more about them or get a memory with them? I just felt like the playlist was meant to be such a big thing, but in the end, it felt like a separate story that was mentioned briefly every now and then.
Honestly, I wasn't even that captivated by the characters. I felt like quite a few of them needed more fleshing out and although some of them had interesting quirks or a side story, they still just weren't enough. Quite a few, I felt, were stock characters. I think the author could have expanded on a lot and fleshed out the novel more. I would consider it to be fairly short, so there was definitely room for things to be made more detailed or brought to life more.
Like I said, I did like the premise and the idea of it, so it gets three stars for that. However, considering the premise of it, it just wasn't impactful or too emotional. I think I was expecting more from it.
I felt the playlist idea was interesting and could have been this great, intriguing thing (kind of like the cassette tapes in 13 Reasons Why), but I felt the author just let it slip by. If the songs were so important, why didn't we learn more about them or get a memory with them? I just felt like the playlist was meant to be such a big thing, but in the end, it felt like a separate story that was mentioned briefly every now and then.
Honestly, I wasn't even that captivated by the characters. I felt like quite a few of them needed more fleshing out and although some of them had interesting quirks or a side story, they still just weren't enough. Quite a few, I felt, were stock characters. I think the author could have expanded on a lot and fleshed out the novel more. I would consider it to be fairly short, so there was definitely room for things to be made more detailed or brought to life more.
Like I said, I did like the premise and the idea of it, so it gets three stars for that. However, considering the premise of it, it just wasn't impactful or too emotional. I think I was expecting more from it.
izzys_internet_bookshelf's review
1.0
1/5
I feel like I had high expectations for this and it let me down.
I feel like I had high expectations for this and it let me down.
timvindigni's review
3.0
ughhhh curse my dumb brain. I’m so close to giving this 4 stars just because I liked the last chapter...I’ll settle for 3.5 I guess.
yellauraya's review
3.0
★★★☆☆
3.00 STARS
It was so sudden for me to read this book. I actually had no plan picking this up, it was just a second-quick decision after seeing an ebook of this from my workmate's files.
It was actually a quick and easy read. I got through it smoothly and it was something not most books can do. It was not the best depiction of suicide for me, though. And there was a lacking aspect, too, that I can't pinpoint. The part where each characters' situations got tangled into the very center of the story kind of threw me off. It felt, I don't know, forced? Forced to be tangled into one another just so it can create the very twist of the story. I don't even really know if my words were making any sense. It just made me feel like there should be something more to it.
Also, it made me wonder if the playlist was somehow relevant to the story? Because as for me, it was a bit off since I thought it would be a huge contribution to the story but I ended up thinking it was kind of not that necessary and the story can moved on pretty well without it.
Despite that, I was actually quite okay with this story. I liked and enjoyed it enough.
3.00 STARS
It was so sudden for me to read this book. I actually had no plan picking this up, it was just a second-quick decision after seeing an ebook of this from my workmate's files.
It was actually a quick and easy read. I got through it smoothly and it was something not most books can do. It was not the best depiction of suicide for me, though. And there was a lacking aspect, too, that I can't pinpoint. The part where each characters' situations got tangled into the very center of the story kind of threw me off. It felt, I don't know, forced? Forced to be tangled into one another just so it can create the very twist of the story. I don't even really know if my words were making any sense. It just made me feel like there should be something more to it.
Also, it made me wonder if the playlist was somehow relevant to the story? Because as for me, it was a bit off since I thought it would be a huge contribution to the story but I ended up thinking it was kind of not that necessary and the story can moved on pretty well without it.
Despite that, I was actually quite okay with this story. I liked and enjoyed it enough.
whisperwind's review
4.0
The beginning of the book was good, intriguing, i was searching for lyrics of some songs but seems they were not necessary at all, or maybe i couldn't understand? i was waiting more Drama, More interesting and unexpected final but i was disappointed( in sum it was just simple, good book
ankysbookbubble's review
5.0
It's books like this one that keep me hooked onto the YA genre and prove how awesome it really is.
Playlist For The Dead was an unputdownable read about a boy named Sam losing his best-and only-friend Hayden and blaming himself for his suicide.
The book is so on the spot about suicides and how much a person's suicide affects those who were near him.
As the story goes, Sam realizes that he's not the only who blames himself for Hayden's death.
The book shows just how many people blamed themselves for Hayden's death, the boy who had just one friend.
I absolutely loved Playlist For The Dead, and it's another book that's going to be very close to my heart and read multiple times more!
Playlist For The Dead was an unputdownable read about a boy named Sam losing his best-and only-friend Hayden and blaming himself for his suicide.
The book is so on the spot about suicides and how much a person's suicide affects those who were near him.
As the story goes, Sam realizes that he's not the only who blames himself for Hayden's death.
The book shows just how many people blamed themselves for Hayden's death, the boy who had just one friend.
I absolutely loved Playlist For The Dead, and it's another book that's going to be very close to my heart and read multiple times more!