5 STARS
Juliet Young has always written letters to her mother. Even after her mother’s death, she leaves letters at her grave. It’s the only thing that helps Juliet cope. Declan Murphy is the kind of tough guy you wouldn’t want to cross. But while on community service doing landscaping at the local cemetery, he is haunted by ghosts of his own past. When Declan finds a letter left beside a grave, he can’t resist writing back. Soon, he is sharing his pain with a perfect stranger…Except they’re not strangers, and when real life interferes with their secret life of letters, Juliet and Declan discover truths that might tear them apart. Let’s start off by talking about the cover. Beautiful, isn’t it? A captivating cover really adds to the emotion of any book. It took me a few days to finally be able to write this review. I had to really process what was going on. This was truly not a plot driven book, instead a character driven read which was captivating and emotional to read. You read stories every other day and it’s a perfect moment where you are entertained…just like watching a movie or your favorite TV series. But then every once in a while, you pick up a book and it truly grabs you. Reels you in, tumbles your emotions, swings you around on one of those swing roller-coaster rides and then eventually spits you out leaving you expose…naked like fish bones… At the end of the day, 90% of novels are simple fiction and on the market to entertain. However, there will always be someone who can relate no matter how unusual or weird. In this case I can relate completely with Juliet and Declan. I’ve experienced both their worlds in my own life. Juliet suffers. She’s completely drowning within her emotions of heartbreak and guilt. She wants to be normal, but no longer know how that feels. She’s lost all sense of who she was and where she’s headed. Losing her mother crippled her and the only coping method she found was writing her deceased mother letters. Declan. Retracted completely from the age of 13. What else was he supposed to do? No-one else cared to figure him out. Instead they themselves created this wash-out persona of whom he is. Instead, internally he was screaming and crying out for help and guidance and forgiveness…but to whom? Nobody listened. Everyone only judged and dismissed him, accepting his front he put forth. Until he saw that letter and found salvation within time. Rev was such an excellent friend to Declan. Even though he struggled immensely with his own demons of his past, he still managed to hang onto Declan without suffocating him in any way. I would love to read his own story though. I despised Declan’s mother and Alan. Who I disliked more is still up for debate as both of them are despicable in their own way. I’ve experienced people just like this, so in no way did the author exaggerate or suck emotions and behaviors out of her thumb. And I think therefore the story touched me so immensely to a point that I had to evaluate my own feelings after I read this story. Nor Juliet or Declan showed any signs of those typical energy-vampire characters where they seem like your typical victims or poorly written heroes. No, these characters were faced with severe intense emotions of which they had no idea of how to cope with it. I don’t want to give out any spoilers. If you have a strong cup of coffee near and you feel brave to literally dive into and intense emotional gut-wrenching story…read this book. A story that will stay with me for a very long time.
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