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One Last Word by Suzanne Park
3.0

I liked it but didn't love it. What I thought was going to be the main premise of the book ended up not being that significant to the story at all though.

This is the tale of Sara Chae, who walks out of her terrible tech job and starts trying to make her own company; One Last Word, an app that sends messages to your loved ones after your death. Unfortunately early in the process Sara gets wasted and writes a bunch of notes that are then sent out when a DIFFERENT Sara Chae dies. ....And this has almost no bearing on the story. Mostly it's the story of a woman building a company and her high school crush happens to be her mentor.

It was cute at times. But a lot of the time it felt like building a company would; stressful and busy and certainly perfect for someone. Just maybe not me.