Playlist for the Dead
A moving, poignant, compelling YA debut, as a 15-year-old boy struggles to understand his best friend's suicide through the list of songs he leaves behind. 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...
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A moving, poignant, compelling YA debut, as a 15-year-old boy struggles to understand his best friend's suicide through the list of songs he leaves behind. 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.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780008110666 (0008110662)
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 281
Edition language: English
Not a book to be read quickly. This must be savored. A 16-year old commits suicide and leaves his friend a playlist to discover why he committed suicide. Listen to the song at the beginning of each chapter and see how it fits. Listen more than once. Make sure you know what is being sung. I onl...
At A GlanceGenre: Young Adult; ContemporaryLove Triangle/Insta Love?: insta love a bit.Cliff Hanger: nope.Rating: 3.5 starsScore SheetAll out of tenCover: 8Plot: 6Characters: 7World Building: 7Flow: 7Series Congruity: n/aEnding: 6Total: 7.5In DeptBest Part: Linkin Park Song!Worst Part: Shallow pl...
sigh. playlist to the dead gives me a close to heavy feeling. this is a story of a boy who committed suicide and left nothing but a playlist to his bestfriend. the story is sad and mysterious. just when i thought what's happened, side stories were slowly uncovered, revealing the whole picture of the...
It sounds good and I want to read it, but it sounds very similar to 13 Reasons Why.
“Apparently I wasn’t the only one who was finding people surprising these days. It made me wonder whether everyone had these secret lives, these aspects of themselves that didn’t match who they seemed to be.”Where to begin with this? For starters, don’t worry about the music. I did listen to some of...