Review: Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer 

This book is about Juliet, who writes letters to her dead mother and leaves them at her grave, and Declan, who finds them whilst doing community service in the graveyard. 

One day, Juliet sees that a previous letter has been written on. She feels violated, and this begins an anonymous conversation between the two. They eventually take their communications digital to anonymous email addresses. 

They start to discover things about each other, and they also unwittingly befriend one another in real life. 

I thought this was an okay to good read and I’d rate it 3.25/5. Some of it just seemed a bit fake. 

If you haven’t read the book, please do not continue as I am about to go into SPOILER MODE and I would hate to ruin the book for you. Happy reading! Goodbye now! 

At the end, when everything started getting perfect, I found it really fake. This was especially true of the kissing scene between Juliet and Declan – it seemed like the author just wanted to add a bit of romance to appeal to different audiences. Also, the Alan and Declan make-up scene seemed really fake – Alan’s always going on about how ungrateful Declan is and then they’re suddenly best friends. Seriously? And (I promise I’ll stop after this, thank you for reading this far) the whole Frank-Declan develop a great bond thing seemed a bit unrealistic, but not unbelievable at all. All that being said, this was just at the end, and the rest was really good. I hope you enjoyed it too! 

Happy reading! 

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