3.5 stars.

It made me think of the Perks of being a Wallflower a lot. Still, it cautivated me with the feelings of Lauren.
The loss of a loved one it's one of the most dificult subects there are, and this book definitely puts that pain in words.
The narrative is accorded to the MC's age. Something for what I'm really thankful.

Esta es la edición de lujo de pasta dura de V&R. Esteticamente hablando está hermosa. Tiene detalles brillantes que son tan característicos de los libros de la editorial y el formato del libro por dentro es colorido y bello.

Le daré otra leída y veremos si mi apreciación por el libro mejora por sobre la primera vez que lo leí.

10/NOV/2017
Terminé el libro por segunda vez. Primero que nada quiero decir que recordé por dónde iba la trama más o menos en la página cincuenta, lo cuál no habla bien del plot twist porque si lo hubiese leído por primera vez a esta edad hubiera adivinado el problema por ahí de la página cien. En un libro de 350 páginas, quieres que tu giro aguante escondido por lo menos hasta la doscientos cincuenta... pero bueno.

Cartas de Amor a los Muertos nos habla de Lauren. Después de la muerte de su hermana May, Lauren está pasando por momentos difíciles y cuando su profesora de Literatura le pide que escriba una carta a una persona fallecida la tarea se vuelve una sesión de catarsis y auto descubrimiento para Lauren. Es a través de estas cartas que Lauren nos transmite su historia.

Los personajes me gustan mucho. Lauren es un personaje muy complejo y con una voz de narración excelente. La forma en que sus cartas fluyen desde su narración de eventos, recolección de datos y los mensajes a sus destinatarios te hacen adentrar en la historia de tal forma que olvidas incluso al destinatario de la carta.

Las voces de los personajes son en extremo adecuadas para la edad que se supone que tienen, algo que me gusta mucho y con lo que muchos autores de Young Adult batallan. Los personajes se sienten auténticos y reales. Algo muy refrescante.

Dicho esto, tengo un problema muy grande con la trama. Y es que yo entiendo que Stephen Chobsky haya sido el mentor de Ava Dellaira pero la historia no solo se parece, sino que grita Perks of Being a Wallflower. Es la misma idea pricipal, el mismo conflicto y por todo lo que es bueno les juro que es el mismo libro. Ni siquiera puedo con las comparaciones.

No, sí puedo. Pero las mantendré concisas porque tampoco quiero contarles todo el libro.
Los amigos son los mismos, con distinto nombre. La importancia de la música es la misma, sólo que mientras en aquél libro escuchamos a The Smiths aquí tenemos a Nirvana.

Dicho esto, a mi casi no me gustó Perks... mis disculpas a Chobsky, pero lo que hace Cartas de amor a los muertos tan fascinante es que a pesar de todas las similitudes no sentí que leía el mismo libro durante la lectura (eso pasó después). Encontré este libro fascinante y en realidad lo disfrute mucho más que la primera vez. Quizá porque esta vez me encontré no sólo en un lugar de mayor madurez sino en un mejor lugar emocional fui capaz de disfrutar más allá de la tristeza y melancolía.

Eso fue más profundo de lo que quería, perdón a ustedes no les interesan mis tristezas amorosas... ¿o sí?

En conclusión este libro me gustó mucho más que la primera vez que lo leí hace tres años. Y no estoy segura de como terminar esta reseña, así que adiós.

I was going to forgive this book for being a bad copy of "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (which I didn't even like). I swear I was really going to.
But then the author mentioned Sthepen Chbosky in the acknowledgements and thanked him for being her mentor and for helping her tell her story.
Ha.

"And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says.
It's knowing that you could be the author instead."

What an absolutely breathtaking novel. I will always remember this book in my heart because I feel like it helped me grow as a person.

So when I asked for an audio book from the library (this was the first time I have ever gotten one from the library) it was a box with 7 disks in total. Usually when I listen to an audio book, I use one of my many audio credits and the book would appear in my app: Audible. But back to my disk dilemma, so for some reason it doesn’t tell you what chapters it is reading from…but I also don’t know if there are actually chapters in the book?!? I don’t know but just bear with me please.

Spoiler

So far I really like Love Letters to the Dead. Each track is so completely interesting and hypnotizing that I can’t wait to hear the next. On the first disk, Laurel is beginning to work on her English class assignment: writing a letter to the dead. Laurel chooses to write to more than one person. One of them is Kurt Cobain, who is May’s favorite singer. May, just like Kurt, died at a super young age. Laurel is the younger sister of May, who was 23 years old when she died from a drug overdose. These letters are helping Laurel cope with her sisters’ sudden death. However, her teacher never receives the letters.

I really liked Laurel’s friends, Hannah and Natalie, in the beginning. They came at the right moment when Laurel really need people the most. They didn’t know what happened to her before she came to this new school but that’s why I loved them even more. Other than her new friendships, I’m kind of disappointed in how her family has been acting lately. Her mother moved away. Her dad just does the same thing on repeat.

When her mom came back to visit, I don’t really know what I was supposed to think about it. I’m glad that her parents are at least trying to be her parents again. I’m glad that they are trying to participate in each others lives. And I’m happy that they are willing to work it out every day.
Sky seems pretty interesting. He is the sweet love interest for Laurel. They bonded over their music taste—which by the way is so hard to do. My boyfriend and I don’t always agree on the choice of radio station—him: news, sports, boring shit. Whereas, I, like any other normal human being, actually like listening to music. Anyways, I really like their friendship and I approve of it 100%. Also love how he was her first kiss because those are super special (well they should be—shouldn’t they?) and he’s such a sweet guy. But then he became a super douche bag and broke up with her. Then he started dating someone older within a few days/weeks. He made me so mad but then I was surprisingly really happy that he was still there sometimes to help Laurel out with problems, like: when she was almost raped and when she needed closure on the damn bridge where May died. Then towards the end Sky and Laurel got back together.
I really liked this book—yes , it is very sad and will make you extremely emotional but it is so freaking good. Like scary good. I’m so happy I spent the time to listen to this book—I even liked the person reading it to me. I recommend this amazing book to everyone—go feel some emotions people!

I was loving this for most of the book; I loved the writing...it's filled with metaphors and just lovely, intriguing language and ideas. About midway through the melodrama started to get to me and I wasn't loving it quite as much. I still really liked it though. Besides the writing I also liked the characters (they felt very real to me and refreshingly different), the concept of the book (writing letters to dead people) and how the reader learns a lot about those dead people in a natural way (the way that Laurel learns about them-through her friends, family and the internet).
While it didn't give me the same "squee" feeling I would give this to someone who liked Eleanor and Park-it's got romance, family trauma and how music influences a person.

I sort off enjoyed this book, specially loved the ending of it, but it was so unrealistic in certain parts of it that it beats the little special moments in the book. The book is supposedly about her grief over her sister's death, but the amount of times that she talkes about sky and how pretty he is and how amazing he is, it kind of loses it's origin point which is that of her sister.

Overall not a horrible book I'll give it that, but I certainly won't reread it.

I have seen this book around the world wide web for a bit now. Like others I was intrigued with the concept of this book. So I had to read this book for myself. Well I have to agree with some of the other fellow readers. That is that while this book has a cool concept it was not as cool. Laurel did sound like she was more like 10 years old than the high school student she was.

Secondly what was with the whole romance angle with Sky? Because it was not working for me at all. I felt no chemistry between Laurel and Sky. It was more like a school girl crush, which grew old quickly. Sky is awesome, Sky is wonderful, Sky is a God, I am over the moon for Sky. This really does sound more like a crush than love.

Lastly even with all of the diary entries to all of the famous dead people, I never really felt like I knew who May was as a person. There was no connection that binded me to Laurel or anyone else in the book.

4,5/5

Una lectura muy recomendable, pero de la cual hay que coger un distanciamiento.
Me ha sido fácil de leer menos una parte al final cuando me parecía demasiado dramático, por lo demás fantastico

Reseña completa en
https://loslibrosdefia.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/cartas-de-amor-a-los-muertos/