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A review by queerpeasant
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
4.0
I started reading this book on a Friday after school when my mom decided she would take me to the library, which never happens. So, I was there and didn't actually have anything in particular to do and decided I would just stand around like a creeper going back and forth along the shelves of the YA section. I had been doing this for about 15 minutes when I saw this book. Now, I always seem to choose a book by this same "operation." First, I look at the cover and if I like the design and/or the font of the title it seems to kind of force me to read the back of the book, I know... dorky. Anyway, I did, and even though I got a weird vibe from the title, I thought it might actually be sort of entertaining. I got the book and showed it to my mom on the car ride there. She was a little suspicious. Like, 'what is my daughter, whom is 13, doing with a book about some girl that writes letters, LOVE LETTERS, to dead people. I told her it was fine and when I got home I started reading it right away. Then, I don't know quit what, but something about the book made me unable to put it down. I read it none stop for, like, three days and finished it just before Monday. I NEVER READ BOOKS THAT FAST!!! Now... my review.
So this book is about a girl whose sister dies and she goes to a new High School. Some people might say that there is no point to reading a book like this for one reason. It doesn't really have some big soul purpose... there isn't really a life lesson. But that is exactly why I loved it! It was deep at some parts and you really felt for all the characters and what's going on, but at the same time, it wasn't boring. I have always been complaining to my mom that someone should make a movie or write a book about just a normal life. Not some big catastrophe or anything, just someones life. And, although she was dealing with a strange sort of grief, it was just some semi-normal High Schooler's life. I loved that it wasn't some huge downer the whole time and that it gave you tons of different emotions. Also, it didn't have a dull scene.
I am not really sure where I am going with this, so I'll wrap it up. I recommend this book on a high level. It is now my second favorite book, going in front of The House of the Scorpion and behind The Fault in Our Stars. Read it! Although, there is a few sexual scenes, so I will recommend, also, that you don't read it without a certain level of maturity.
Okay, that's all...
LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!
READ IT!!!!!
So this book is about a girl whose sister dies and she goes to a new High School. Some people might say that there is no point to reading a book like this for one reason. It doesn't really have some big soul purpose... there isn't really a life lesson. But that is exactly why I loved it! It was deep at some parts and you really felt for all the characters and what's going on, but at the same time, it wasn't boring. I have always been complaining to my mom that someone should make a movie or write a book about just a normal life. Not some big catastrophe or anything, just someones life. And, although she was dealing with a strange sort of grief, it was just some semi-normal High Schooler's life. I loved that it wasn't some huge downer the whole time and that it gave you tons of different emotions. Also, it didn't have a dull scene.
I am not really sure where I am going with this, so I'll wrap it up. I recommend this book on a high level. It is now my second favorite book, going in front of The House of the Scorpion and behind The Fault in Our Stars. Read it! Although, there is a few sexual scenes, so I will recommend, also, that you don't read it without a certain level of maturity.
Okay, that's all...
LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!
READ IT!!!!!