Book Blog # 16, Love letters to the dead

Love Letters to the Dead                                                                                                 by Ava Dellaira

Laurel's life has changed quite a bit since her sister May's death. It all starts with the English assignment of writing a letter to  dead person. She writes to Kurt Cobain, May's favorite singer. Her mother moves away and lives the life that the family had always fantasized about. She now has to switch off between her aunt and her dad. She starts to write more and more letters about her new High school experience (She changed High Schools so people wouldn't know about May.) and her friends. She writes about memories of her sister. She slowly starts to except what happened to her sister and to live her new life.

Overall I enjoyed this book quite a bit and t has a good storyline. I like that each chapter the author writes about something different that happened to may, and that there isn't a ton of repetition. he storyline is carried really well throughout and I rarely felt confused about what was happening. I feel like I really know some of the characters and that the author did a good job of making every character have a unique personality.

The prompt I chose: would this be a good movie?

I think that it would be hard to turn into a movie because it is written in letters, and she talks about her thoughts a lot. It could be interesting to do a movie with flashbacks and scenes. It could also be interesting if there were visuals to put with the book and to see the personalities come to life. Overall, I would say that it could only be a movie if it was in a way that fits Ava's writing style.


Warning: There is some language in the book, ad there are sexual references. There is also minor smoking. It wasn't bad, but in parts of it it would get a little overwhelmingly weird.


TBR list

Water for Elephants   by Sara Gruen

Endgame: The Calling   by James Frey, and Nils Johnson Shelton
Speak   by Laurie Halse-Anderson
The List   by Siobhan Vivian
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy   by Douglas Adams
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time   by Mark Haddon