Lynnie 
young adult, contemporary fiction
I can't decide if this is 3 or 3 1/2 stars, which probably means it's 3 stars.
For a book about a serious & depressing topic (suicide), Playlist for the Dead is surprisingly not depressing at all. Instead it's about coping, grieving & learning to move forward. I think Michelle Falkoff has made it easier to read about suicide and its fallout because in this book we never really know Hayden before his death. Rather I was intrigued by the people Hayden left behind & this book really succeeds in letting us get to know them as the story plays out.
There were some small "mysteries" in the story- none of which were particularly mysterious honestly (in fact, I thought it was rather obvious). Suspecting how things were going to unfold though didn't take away from story.
It's not an uplifting read, but it is an interesting one.
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