Maureen's Reviews > Love Letters to the Dead

I ended up enjoying this book and the characters a lot, but it was SO similar to Perks that it annoyed me. I love the idea of writing letters to someone who is dead, and I love how the author included facts and things about the famous person's life. The characters were lovely and the writing was beautiful. Getting over loss is never easy, and I really liked how the author approached it.
The romance aspect felt a little forced to me. There wasn't much build up or substance or....anything, until closer until the end.
I loved Natalie & Hannah and their storyline, though I wish more of the focus would have gone to them than any of the other secondary characters.
*spoilers ahead beware* But THE PLOT. The major "shocking" plot point was so much the same, and the background characters were going through almost THE SAME SITUATION as people in Perks. EVEN MINOR CHARACTERS HAD THE SAME PROBLEMS.i really really wish the author would have used a completely different story with an equally as shocking revelation of something different because this story had so much potential.
The letter writing story telling was different enough from perks that it could have stood on its own, but since so much was the same it feels extremely repetitive.

But 10/10 for cover design, amirite?