hyperlexy 's review for:

The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

3.75

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Ella’s distrust is an absolute trauma response, and it’s not fair Beckett takes all the blame for that and has to grovel for her forgiveness. He’s such an unrealistic book boyfriend trope - he exists to be obsessed with her (but that’s Yarros’s MO to be fair). And Ella’s son dying at the end — after literally EVERYONE else in her family dying (parents, grandmother, brother) and only one (her daughter) surviving??? Then the rest of the book feeling super rushed through? It just didn’t hit with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Mental illness, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment

Minor: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Alcohol

graphic depictions of war violence, torture, murder — graphic depictions of stage four metastasized childhood cancer and extensive treatment including surgery — graphic depictions of child injury and death