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A review by daffz
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
4.0
I read the first fifth of this book yesterday, then sat down to read again today and read rest of it in one sitting. This book was really, really good.
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend Has a very interesting structure. There are two storylines going on at the same time, both with the same main character. One takes place in the recent past, right after the main character's best friend died. The other is a little while later in the present. The chapters alternate between "Then" and "Now". At first, I thought this was a recipe for disaster, how could I keep two storylines straight when they're both about the same person without getting confused? But it wasn't nearly as hard to keep track of as I feared. The stories were different enough to be easy to keep apart and they also complimented each other nicely.
I thought the romance was really nice too. It showed how relationships can change over time in a very realistic way, and the issues the two girls ran into felt very natural. The ending was just really cute.
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend Has a very interesting structure. There are two storylines going on at the same time, both with the same main character. One takes place in the recent past, right after the main character's best friend died. The other is a little while later in the present. The chapters alternate between "Then" and "Now". At first, I thought this was a recipe for disaster, how could I keep two storylines straight when they're both about the same person without getting confused? But it wasn't nearly as hard to keep track of as I feared. The stories were different enough to be easy to keep apart and they also complimented each other nicely.
I thought the romance was really nice too. It showed how relationships can change over time in a very realistic way, and the issues the two girls ran into felt very natural. The ending was just really cute.