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More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer

7 reviews

vivisms_82's review

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dark emotional hopeful tense
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

We meet Rev in book #1 and I am so glad we get to hear his story too. He meets Emma Blue. Rev is battling personal demons and Emma is overwhelmed by her home-life situation amongst other things. Marvellous read. I especially loved Geoff and Kristin - if only we had more folks like them in the world!
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hellodebbies's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Incroyable ! 
Comme à chaque fois, on a des personnages bien développés et recherchés, des histoires personnelles touchantes avec une belle évolution personnelle. 
Beaucoup de dénonciation dans ce livre que j'ai beaucoup apprécié. C'était très bien écrit avec beaucoup de recherches clairement. 
La romance était vraiment agréable à lire ! 
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tammythree's review against another edition

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4.5

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perished's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

4.5 stars. 5 if emma hadn’t been such a pain in the ass most of the book.
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nya_r's review

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

If you don’t like YA books, read this. That may sound strange but this is very different from your typical YA book. It’s not cheesy and handles very heavy topics really well. I absolutely love Rev Fletcher. I liked him a lot in Letters to the Lost (the first book to this companion novel) but I honestly started reading this book to see more of Juliet and Declan. HOWEVER, I was reading it for Rev by chapter two. I just want to hug him and protect him. He’s honestly my favorite boy character ever. He was the sweetest. I cried so many times during this book. There were happy tears and sad tears and angry tears and frustrated tears… it was a mess haha. Please look up trigger warnings, but if you read it, you’ll love it. 
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oliviathepig's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

such a cute book. i adored it. towards the end the plot twists were pretty shocking to me. 
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spearly's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I glance over at Rev. Every time I’m with him, I want to stare. Some of that is because he keeps so much hidden. All I ever see is the edge of his jaw, the sculpted arch of his lips, the line of his nose. His eyes, always in shadow.

I think of gaming, where I’m in control and no one sees the real me. I wonder if the computer is my version of the hoodie.


More Than We Can Tell follows Rev, Declan's best friend from Letters to the Lost, and Emma, a shy gamer girl who keeps running into Rev behind their local church. It delves into Rev's traumatic past that was hinted at in book 1 (and boy, does Kemmerer go there!), as well as Emma's experiences being a girl in the male-dominated field of video games.

This book was intense. I was so curious about Rev after reading Declan and Juliet's story, and safe to say, I was not disappointed. He is such an incredibly nuanced character. Usually I am not a fan of books with too much God-iness, too many religious themes and whatnot, but it made complete sense with Rev's character. It helped my understand him and his history with his abusive father. My heart broke for him.

And Emma! Obviously, she makes some mistakes. But she's a teenager going through something very similar to my own teenage experience, so I understood her motivations. And she was the perfect person to bring Rev out of his shell. I loved their chapters together, and the love story was even a bit more satisfying than D and J since we actually get a bit more detail with the romance. 

The Declan and Juliet cameos were perfection. We obviously saw more of D, considering he's Rev's best friend, and he's just as wonderful as I remember. 

I wouldn't be opposed to another companion novel featuring Cait (Emma's best friend). Brigid? What do you say?

Overall, a heart wrenching romance that delves even more into themes of grief, of trauma, and family.

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