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Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira
So. Melodramatic. The construct of writing letters to the dead was poorly executed, too--she had to tell the person too much about their own life in order for the reader to know what she was talking about. It was always awkward. The writing was so low-level and trite--authors can use the excuse of "the character's voice" for only so long before I just don't think they're good writers.
The story was completely predictable. Of COURSE she gets roofied. Oh duh, she was being molested. Hey look, everyone comes to terms with their shit and gets closure!
All this book reinforced is that those who suffer a major loss, no matter their age, need to go to therapy, stat. And apparently divorce is far more traumatic to children than I ever realized, at least in the opinion of this writer, given how it seemed to be at the crux of a few of the dead people's torments and was a major issue for Laurel (really, though, her mother is a selfish asshole). Therapy is clearly necessary. And oh look, she gets it at the end!
The story was completely predictable. Of COURSE she gets roofied. Oh duh, she was being molested. Hey look, everyone comes to terms with their shit and gets closure!
All this book reinforced is that those who suffer a major loss, no matter their age, need to go to therapy, stat. And apparently divorce is far more traumatic to children than I ever realized, at least in the opinion of this writer, given how it seemed to be at the crux of a few of the dead people's torments and was a major issue for Laurel (really, though, her mother is a selfish asshole). Therapy is clearly necessary. And oh look, she gets it at the end!