wow. i forgot just how great BKs realistic fiction stories are.this was the first book i ever read by her and ive always wanted to do a reread. and this is just as amazing the second time around. i love the emphasis on growing, making your path, not letting one day define a life, and accepting others. its a really nice coming-of-age story about two lost, but tender, souls. i cant let another 3 years go by before i do my next reread. ↠ 4.5 stars

I still get messages asking me to write a book for Rev, which I did, and it was released last year. I wanted to update my review of Letters to the Lost to include the link to it: Rev's Book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Reread!Beautiful! Just beautiful! I love that it is not just a love-story. There's so much more to it. It's so much deeper. The tone of the book is heavy. Its pages are filled with grief and anger and misunderstandings. It was intense to read and a lot to take in because the burden that weighed so heavily on our main characters weighed on me. I could’ve read many more pages. I never wanted their story to end. They found each in the midst of absolute despair and clung to the understanding they fo...

I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO READ THIS BOOK IN ONE SITTING BUT I DID BECAUSE I COULDN'T STOP READING AND AHHHHHHHHH I'M SO HAPPY AND I CAN'T STOP SMILING AND WANTING TO CRY AND HUG THIS BOOK TO MY CHEST ALL AT THE SAME TIME AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *incoherent blubber****Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***Letters to the Lost by Brigid KemmererPublisher: Bloomsbury USA ChildrensPublication Date: April 4, 2017Rating: 5 starsSource: eARC from N...

“One day isn’t your life…a day is just a day.” Boy am I surprised with my rating!Sana's review sums it up pretty well – I was expecting cheese, pointless teenage drama, a lot of sickening “I can’t live without you” melodrama, and not a whole lot else.But I was WRONG guys. So wrong. This was full of pain and trauma, hope and love, desperation and fear, honesty and friendship. I cried. Real tears. Actual eye leakage. I can’t believe it.So Juliet writes letters to her mother who died in a freak ca

You know when you need a book but you’re not even sure what you exactly need and then you win some theoretical lottery bc YOU PICKED THE RIGHT DAMN BOOKThat’s me right now.(s) I’m LEGIT a sucker for anything resembling You’ve Got Mail (you can blame Peppa Pig for that). This is like my 5th retelling book with a similar plot and gosh damn give me more. But honestly this book was so much more than just passing cute notes back and forth, it was about sorrow and grief and friendship and family and g...

~ 5 stars ~ "Sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you'll do anything to get rid of the pain. Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else." I cannot express how much I loved this book. The more I thought about this book, the more I realized how much I adored it. It started off as a solid 4 stars, but the second half was wonderful and elevated it tenfold. There were tears of both sadness and happiness dripping down my face. This book made me genuinely shed tears...

“We're all united by grief, and somehow divided by the same thing.” I never realized how much I needed this.Before starting my review, many thanks to Bhavya for this recommendation!As you guys know, I usually don't care much for romance novels. I always find them too mushy and cheesy for my taste. So, when I started this, I was expecting cheesiness, annoying characters, and a nonexistent plot.I was wrong.Bhavya, you have changed my opinion of the romance genre...I didn't even know that's poss

Upon Reread: 5 starsHonestly, it may have been even better the second time around. THIS BOOK IS SO AMAZING!---------------------------------------This is one of my new favorites. I obsessively read this book. So gripping and unique and simply amazing. So happy to have read it!

“When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.” 5⭐I love this book soo freakin much!! This book IMO is not just a romance, it deals with anger. sorrow and loss and soo many other things<3Plot Our MC, Juliet writes letters to her mother who died a while ago. She leaves them in her cemetery knowing that no one else would see it or even care about it. But when Declan Murphy a teen like her who is battling anger and loss comes across these letters, he finally feels like

Here is my Spotify Playlist! "I don’t know what the point of this story is, except maybe to say that sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you’ll do anything to get rid of the pain. Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else." ~First Read- January 2021~~Second read- August 2021~~Third Read- November 2021~~First Rating- 5 stars~ ~Second rating- 5 stars~~Third rating- 5 stars~Content/ Trigger Warnings- school shooting joke, grief, depression, anxiety, panic at...

When I first saw this book I thought it would be a dumb, cheesy, and extra adorable cute contemporary with some like, forbidden romance or some shit that would make you sob your heart out for the characters (I DON'T READ BLURBS LMAO OK) and I avoided it for months. Since this was may's favorite sappy contemporary, I ASSUMED it would be what I described. OH HOW WRONG I WAS SOMEONE FEEL FREE TO PUNCH ME IN THE FACE!!What I got was a book about labels, judgement, grief, love, acceptance, friendship...

This hard-hitting YA Contemporary is vivid and heartbreaking. It literally left me an emotional mess, drying my tears from the puddle I was laying in on the floor.I feel like a bad friend, but I can't help it. I can't force what I'm feeling to fit between chapters two and six in some handbook dealing with the death of a loved one.Letters to the Lost, follows the lives of two teenagers in the wake of personal tragedies. Through very odd circumstances they begin a correspondence, initially through...

I’m beginning to think I have a different idea of what’s emotional because I am yet again baffled by the lack of intense emotions I was supposed to have felt reading this. According to the reviews, I should be heartbroken right now. Destroyed. Spent. Instead, I was BORED. I’m sorry but I. Was. Bored. Out of my mind. I appreciate the premise of the book, it deals with grief, anger, guilt, as well as healing and acceptance. To be able to move on and begin anew. All of which sounded so enticing yet...

5 stars “One day isn't your whole life. A day is just a day.” Letters to the Lost is a stunning story about grief, moving on, and seeing past the ordinary. It’s a beautiful coming of age story that gave me so many feels. I adored it. Juliet and Declan couldn’t seem more different if they tried. They go to the same high school, but they don’t run in the same crowds. Declan is a bad boy, and Juliet is a good student, into photography, and outgoing. Or she used to be, until she lost

Don’t you think it’s funny how people say “lost” as if they were just misplaced? But maybe it’s a different meaning of “lost,” in that you don’t know where they went.In this book we have Juliet and Declan, two teenagers who have lost someone in their life and still are not over their death. When Declan finds a note on the gravestone while he is working in the graveyard for his community service, he replies back. At first Juliet, who wrote the note to her dead mother, is angry that how could anyo...

3.5 stars rounded up to a 4"Me Too" are words we are currently hearing a lot in the media, and these two words also pack a powerful punch in this book.Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother who traveled the world as a photojournalist. When her Mother dies, Juliet continues writing her letters without thinking the letters will ever be answered. Then one day a letter was answered with two words "Me Too"Two simple words that have a lot of meaning. Just who has answered back and why?D...

#1 Letters to the Lost ★★★★★#2 More Than We Can Tell ★★★☆☆I’d heard somewhat mixed reviews from my friends on this book, but after learning that the ARC of Brigid’s I’d been approved for, More Than We Can Tell, is meant to be read after this one, I decided to go ahead and read it – and I couldn’t put it down. Don’t get me wrong, Letters is an incredibly sad story filled with grief, pain, and regret, but there’s also something tremendously heart-warming and comforting in Brigid’s writing. “What...

::: FULL REVIEW NOW POSTED ::: Juliet Young writes letters to her mother... and leaves them at her grave. She never imagined someone would write back... ***DEEP BREATH*** This book intrigued me from the moment I read the blurb. I like to find balance among all the books I read and since recently I've read many lighter, sexier romances, I was craving something a little more heavy and serious. This book immediately came to mind because the blurb really stuck with me -- the idea of char

Actual rating: 3.5⭐It's a sad story about two people finding each other in a struggle of grief. At a very young age, they have faced such hard reality in their own lives, which was truly painful. I felt their sorrow, guilt, tears, hopelessness, and anger throughout the book and kind of kept rooting for them.“𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨, 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙢𝙪𝙘𝙝, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙧𝙞𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣.”There were a lot o...