Rebecca Yarros - The Last Letter review

WOW! This book was completely captivating, gut-wrenching and so beautiful! It was a book that left me with a hangover and will stay with me for a long time. I don't want to say too much and ruin this story for you. However, I knew by reading the synopsis, that it would probably make me cry. I think it's a testament to Rebecca's writing that she sucked me into this story and I cried (the first time) at only 9% into the book. Now, don't let that warn you away from the book. This story is powerful and moving. I think it's one everyone needs to read. But, let me warn you, you might not want to read this entire book in public.  *cue tears* I felt every emotion and every high and low this book had.  It embedded under my skin and even days later writing this review, it doesn't want to let me go.  I can't tell you how much I recommend this read, other than PREORDER IT NOW! 

"Yarros’ novel is a deeply felt and emotionally nuanced contemporary romance…”—a Starred review from Kirkus Reviews

“The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story.“—InTouch Weekly

Beckett,

If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.

I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.

My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair.

And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help.

So if I’m gone, that means I can’t be there for Ella. I can’t help them through this. But you can. So I’m begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family.

Please don’t make her go through it alone.


Ryan