Losing someone is hard. Losing a family member is especially
hard. For Laurel, losing her sister was extremely hard because she was there
when her sister May died. Add in the fact that she’s not only starting high school,
but also a new school all together, and she has hit the extreme angst teenager
scale. Her first assignment in English class though, throws things over the
top. Write a letter to a dead person
Understandably, Laurel has a little trouble with the assignment,
although you wouldn’t know it when she keeps writing letters to get her
feelings out. Through these letters, everything that has happened since even
before her sister’s death starts to come out, especially that she feels
responsible.
I wanted to like this book. Seriously. It was written really
well. The characters were fantastic. The story line was just the right amount
of depressing and uplifting while still being a coming of age story. But…the
whole time I was reading it I had this feeling that I had read this kind of
story before. Person writing letters after a tragic event, trying to fit in
with new friends, and at a new school…
It was The Perks of
Being a Wallflower, just instead of having Charlie writing letters to some
unnamed person it was a girl writing letters to dead people.
Final Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. This book was good, I just
felt like it was too much a duplicate of The
Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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