“May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.” -Ava Dellaira, Love letter to the death
WARNING: This book
may cause you to spend a whole day feeling down.
I fell in love with the idea behind this book before I'd even read it. It is written in the format of letters to dead celebrities, in which the protagonist expresses her thoughts and feelings. It all starts with an assignment for an English class, where Laurel has to write a letter to a dead person. Though she doesn't give them to her teacher, she has a notebook full of letters to dead celebrities about her family, friends and experiences at her new school, as well as her sister May who died young
This is a difficult book to
read. And not for any reasons except it was dark and it was sad and some of it
felt very lonely. I pictured Laurel sitting in her room or at school writing
the letters to famous people who have passed, as she is to scared to share her
feelings with the living. It
carries such a deep message about family and grief and how it affects you on a
whole, and how one eventually overcomes that whilst going through a rough
journey. Just beautiful.
Having said that, this book
really was touching. I don’t know what it’s like to lose someone but the grief
in this book is so profound that I know that I don’t want to know. This book
really is powerful.
I would highly recommend Love
Letters to the Dead to readers who enjoy Young Adult contemporary/realistic
fiction, particularly the more serious kind, and coming of age novels.
By the time I post this
review, I will have rewritten it a million times and I still won't be able to
convey what I really think about it. Take that to mean what you will.
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