Playlist for the Dead

When I read this as a teenager it really resonated with who I was at the time and what I was going through. On Goodreads the top review is essentially someone complaining she didn't get the mystery novel she was expecting and therefore it's bad. I disagree.

Do I think it's as perfect as I did? No, but I still think it's a pretty good book. It touches upon the theme of suicide in a much better way than certain other popular books have done. The reality of it is that suicide isn't always explainable or understandable to those left behind. For the most part, only those who chose to end their life knows the ins and outs of what they were going through, and for that I think it's a much more realistic take to not make it a detective story with case closed in the end. Cause suicide is much more serious and complex than that. I honestly fault the reader for expecting that of a YA novel about this kind of topic.