Love Letters to the Dead

I think maybe I would have liked this one a bit more if I was younger and didn't know much or anything about the people Laurel writes letters to. The mini-biographies she would start most of the letters with was boring to me. Why would you write a letter to someone to tell them about their own life? But because nearly everyone she wrote to died before Laurel was born I guess she felt she needed to explain to the reader who she was writing to.

The story itself was sad and unfortunately a story that's been told many times before. I didn't think Laurel's letters actually sounded like a girl her age most of the time. It took me a really long time to read it and the last half of the book I just wanted it to be finished!

I found it interesting that Ava Dellaira names Stephen Chbosky because there were times when I felt like this book wanted really badly to be Perks Of Being A Wallflower, but with a female protagonist. So many details were very similar, but I don't want to name them and spoil the book for someone who might get more out of it than I did.