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Playlist for the Dead
by Michelle Falkoff
playlist for the dead was the first read of the year for me so i was slightly biased towards it. it's a debut novel of michelle falkoff which was published in 2015.
sam's best friend, hayden, is dead and all he has left behind is a suicide note with a playlist of songs. the only thing sam knows is that the night before they were at a party and there was fight. but he doesn't know why.
soon, the bullies who made hayden's life hell start getting attacked and sam is receiving texts from someone claiming to be his dead best friend. now he has to figure out what is going on and the only thing he can rely on is the playlist that hayden left for him.
the book first came into my recommendations when i bought jay asher's #13reasonswhy back in 2017. the title was quite attractive as you can tell so when i finally decided to read the book this year, i was excited and had high expectations.
unfortunately, they weren't met.
while the story was quite good from sam's perspective, it did not relate much with any other elements of the book. many things were left unexplained and it felt like a lot more hype was created than it could offer later on. the title of the book itself, in my opinion, was a bit misleading because there isn't much that we explore from the aspect of the playlist or suicide nor does most of it relate to the actual story that we read.
the storytelling was more focused on sam's life after hayden but it failed to actually spark any emotions towards his pain. we see him listening to a song in every chapter from the playlist, trying to understand what it could mean while recalling the memories with his friend but that's pretty much the extent of the role that the playlist actually plays throughout the book.
overall, i give the book a 2 stars rating. i didn't like it much but i didn't totally hate it either. i feel like it could've done well had the plot focused solely on sam and his life after losing his best friend instead of trying to give it the element of mystery or even the playlist that it more or less failed at. i would still give any other book that the author writes a try but this one wasn't for me.
sam's best friend, hayden, is dead and all he has left behind is a suicide note with a playlist of songs. the only thing sam knows is that the night before they were at a party and there was fight. but he doesn't know why.
soon, the bullies who made hayden's life hell start getting attacked and sam is receiving texts from someone claiming to be his dead best friend. now he has to figure out what is going on and the only thing he can rely on is the playlist that hayden left for him.
the book first came into my recommendations when i bought jay asher's #13reasonswhy back in 2017. the title was quite attractive as you can tell so when i finally decided to read the book this year, i was excited and had high expectations.
unfortunately, they weren't met.
while the story was quite good from sam's perspective, it did not relate much with any other elements of the book. many things were left unexplained and it felt like a lot more hype was created than it could offer later on. the title of the book itself, in my opinion, was a bit misleading because there isn't much that we explore from the aspect of the playlist or suicide nor does most of it relate to the actual story that we read.
the storytelling was more focused on sam's life after hayden but it failed to actually spark any emotions towards his pain. we see him listening to a song in every chapter from the playlist, trying to understand what it could mean while recalling the memories with his friend but that's pretty much the extent of the role that the playlist actually plays throughout the book.
overall, i give the book a 2 stars rating. i didn't like it much but i didn't totally hate it either. i feel like it could've done well had the plot focused solely on sam and his life after losing his best friend instead of trying to give it the element of mystery or even the playlist that it more or less failed at. i would still give any other book that the author writes a try but this one wasn't for me.