I generally go against the grain when it comes to what I like. Even Emma Watson was crowing about the book on Twitter. When the ARC came and I saw so many blurbs from so many authors I love I was doubly excited to read it. The entire book is written by a young girl to dead icons. I asked for this book from the FSG catalogue because of its unusual writing style.

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. 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, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. 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.

Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux for Young Readers on April 1st, 2014 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Review: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

Love letters to the dead review