I Woke Up Dead at the Mall Review

I Woke Up Dead at the Mall is about Sarah, a 16 year-old girl, who wakes up dead at Mall of America with no recollection of who killed her or why. In fact, she deals with trying to believe if she was truly murdered or if she suffered from food poisoning.

This was a great novel that gave a more lighthearted look at death instead of grim reapers and deciding on whether you belong in Heaven or Hell. It's based in Mall of America, which I said above, and that type of setting was absolutely wonderful to see used as a death place. It only added to the lightheartedness of this novel. This book does hold a bit of mystery to it because there isn't a reason as to why the person killed Sarah for a good portion of the novel and you're just left with the question, "Why?" Granted, you will find out and it'll be sort of obvious as to who did it and why if you pick up the clues. It was a super predictable novel, but it was a fun one so I can't complain.

The main character Sarah was a fantastic narrator. She was witty (trying a bit too hard sometimes), funny, and actually cared about her family and the dead people around her. In all honesty, all the characters has such diverse personalities. It was absolutely refreshing to see. I think as a whole this novel did a fantastic job at being positive with relationships between characters and being relatively positive with the whole death scene. I would read another book by this author hands down.

4/5 stars.