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Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira

Start date: June 1, 2014

Finish date: June 30, 2014

Discussion: Stand Alone

Why we're reading this: It won the poll for the stand alone book
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Mar 20, 2014 Caitlin rated it it was ok

Shelves: books-i-did-not-like, coming-out-this-spring-2014

This book can best be described as a train wreck that ends into a rainbow and purple flashy unicorns.

The concept of this book sounded fabulous, that is why I picked it up. What a major let down.

First, the letters to the dead telling them about their own lives. Do you really think someone would take the time to write to a ghost telling them about their own childhoods? I totally loved and understood the idea of her writing to ghosts. She needed someone to spill her secrets to, and who better tha ...more

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Nov 08, 2013 Tressa (Wishful Endings) marked it as not-for-me

Shelves: ya, ya-contemporary, netgalley, 2014-debut-author-challenge

I had trouble connecting to the character and writing style and then when I did there was innuendo/content that I didn't like and I didn't like the direction the character/plot was going. DNF ...more

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Nov 12, 2019 Tweller83 rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary

This was an excellent book but really hard to read. I feel so bad for the girls and the parents. Great book about grief and coming to terms with that grief.

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