Ava Dellaira
Hardcover | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.81 | 60932 Users | 7762 Reviews
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| Title | : | Love Letters to the Dead |
| Author | : | Ava Dellaira |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Romance. Fiction |
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It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more -- though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was -- lovely and amazing and deeply flawed -- can she begin to discover her own path in this stunning debut from Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead.Identify Books As Love Letters to the Dead
| Original Title: | Love Letters to the Dead |
| ISBN: | 0374346674 (ISBN13: 9780374346676) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Albuquerque, New Mexico(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 60932 Users | 7762 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Love Letters to the Dead
Reminiscent of Perks Of Being A Wallflower, Love Letters To The Dead is too beautiful, too meaningful, and too heartbreaking to describe with words. An incredible, moving and very important story with a beating heart and bright soul. It's one of those books that everyone ought to read, own, and share with all their friends. don't miss itI ended up enjoying this book and the characters a lot, but it was SO similar to Perks that it annoyed me. I love the idea of writing letters to someone who is dead, and I love how the author included facts and things about the famous person's life. The characters were lovely and the writing was beautiful. Getting over loss is never easy, and I really liked how the author approached it.The romance aspect felt a little forced to me. There wasn't much build up or substance or....anything, until
***This review has also been posted on The Social Potato WARNING: This book may cause you to spend a whole day feeling down. There are some things I cant tell anyone, except the people who arent here anymore This is honestly a very hard book to review. It brought out a lot of mixed feelings in me. I went back and forth between being pissed and loving the book and it wasnt until the 3rd third that I decided that this book was wonderful. A warning though, if you dont like drama, avoid this. This
Tedious. Repetitive. Pretentious. Love Letters to the the Dead is too similar to The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Yes, a copy.
3.5 STARSOur flushing hearts, trying to climb the stars - how with the wrong wind, we can fall. I dont think Ive ever felt so many contrasting emotions for a book as I did for this one. My first impulse was to rage quit this as early as the second Cobain letter, followed by derisively laughing at Laurels puerile drama. Then I felt some alien tug at my heart over Aunt Amy and her Jesus Man and got teary-eyed over the story behind her parents broken marriage. Reading this book felt a lot like
wow. That's such a massive, massive understatement, but I just...wow. Hands down the best book I've read in 2014.
This book is a hard one for me to decide how to rate. There were parts of it I really liked and there were parts of it when I thought my eyes would glaze over and never recover. Laurel is given an assignment to write to a dead person. She begins to do so and never turns in the assignment. Once she starts she keeps going with it and changes to several past celebrities and historical figures. She has moved to a new school to help cope with her sister Mae's death. Hoping that a new school will
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