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A review by saritaroth
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
5.0
BEST! BOOK! EVER!!!
The balance between serious topics and humorous, well-liked characters is exquisite! I admit that I truly love books about serious topics, like depression or death (weird, I know), but the way Ava Dellaira tells the story of Laurel is high above what is expected, even for her genre.
After I read this book, I immediately looked at reviews of what others thought, expecting to find an assortment of everyone's applause and gratification that an author wrote this brilliant book. However, instead I found many upset reviews that this 14-year-old female would act and write like an 11-year-old. Perhaps this might be true, but what the writers of these reviews failed to mention is that Laurel experienced many tragedies in her short life so far that most people could not even imagine. To name even one of these unfortunate instances, to put it lightly, would be an enormous spoiler, so I will not specify the types of hardships she had to go through. I will say, though, that these difficulties generally stunt a child's mental and emotional growth, and therefore, Laurel was unable to act or write at an internal age of older than 11 (as the aforementioned struggles first started when she was approximately 11.
I will conclude this review by saying that everyone I have physically talked to have loved - LOVED - this book. I talk to my friend almost daily about how this book is phenomenal to the point of rambling on and on and ON. I also talked to a close family member of mine, who read this upon my request, who said that this is an absolutely amazing book. Absolutely. Amazing.
Words do not begin to describe how fantastic this is.
The balance between serious topics and humorous, well-liked characters is exquisite! I admit that I truly love books about serious topics, like depression or death (weird, I know), but the way Ava Dellaira tells the story of Laurel is high above what is expected, even for her genre.
After I read this book, I immediately looked at reviews of what others thought, expecting to find an assortment of everyone's applause and gratification that an author wrote this brilliant book. However, instead I found many upset reviews that this 14-year-old female would act and write like an 11-year-old. Perhaps this might be true, but what the writers of these reviews failed to mention is that Laurel experienced many tragedies in her short life so far that most people could not even imagine. To name even one of these unfortunate instances, to put it lightly, would be an enormous spoiler, so I will not specify the types of hardships she had to go through. I will say, though, that these difficulties generally stunt a child's mental and emotional growth, and therefore, Laurel was unable to act or write at an internal age of older than 11 (as the aforementioned struggles first started when she was approximately 11.
I will conclude this review by saying that everyone I have physically talked to have loved - LOVED - this book. I talk to my friend almost daily about how this book is phenomenal to the point of rambling on and on and ON. I also talked to a close family member of mine, who read this upon my request, who said that this is an absolutely amazing book. Absolutely. Amazing.
Words do not begin to describe how fantastic this is.