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Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira
This one deserves a standing ovation, a held-in breath after reading the last sentence, a custom pack of tissues to come along with it.
As I was reading, Love Letters reminded me more and more of an all-time favourite The Perks of Being a Wallflower and seeing Stephen Chbosky's name in the acknowledgments made me smile, somehow?
In all seriousness, May's story is a painful one. But also a hopeful one. And it only reminded me of how much a sibling can mean to someone else, how much words hold, how precious poetry of all ages is.
Although the writing style was a little too simplistic at times, and the way May switched between talking about the infatuating older Sky, her Aunt and Jesus Man, and talking about her sister clearly shows that she is still a child (with pubescent moods), I still think that it was necessary to make the book realistic (and thusly more painful).
As I was reading, Love Letters reminded me more and more of an all-time favourite The Perks of Being a Wallflower and seeing Stephen Chbosky's name in the acknowledgments made me smile, somehow?
In all seriousness, May's story is a painful one. But also a hopeful one. And it only reminded me of how much a sibling can mean to someone else, how much words hold, how precious poetry of all ages is.
Although the writing style was a little too simplistic at times, and the way May switched between talking about the infatuating older Sky, her Aunt and Jesus Man, and talking about her sister clearly shows that she is still a child (with pubescent moods), I still think that it was necessary to make the book realistic (and thusly more painful).