A review by lucamelion
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

3.0

When I read this book for the first time, I liked it and would have given it 4 stars, but then I read "The perks of being a wallflower" and realized it is basically the same story. So I couldn't rate it that high anymore. Nevertheless, it is a nice read, I liked the letters and the lesbian side story. Laurel seemed an okay main character although it was a bit unrealistic that she'd spent her whole life wanting to be her sister, so much that she doesn't have any own personality in the beginning. But maybe I just don't know that feeling because I'm the oldest sister myself and never experienced having an older sibling as your role model. And Laurel seemed to me a bit too much like a child and her thoughts and writing are a bit too naive and childish for a girl her age.
Nevertheless I enjoyed reading it and it's quite good for a debut novel.