When I started reading this book, I thought it was really good. I love the descriptions, I loved the writing and I thought that the idea was really great and interesting. But as the plot progressed, I found the writing and descriptions to be tiring and repetitive. Laurel started pissing me off a little bit more with each letter I read, and at the end it was quite of a struggle for me to even finish the book.

There were good parts in this book, beautiful even, but they were often pushed into the background whenever Laurel started writing about Sky. How pretty and handsome and lovely he was, and how she felt things for him that she never felt before.

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And then they broke up, and that was the only think she could write about. How painful it was and how much she wanted him back and how sorry she was. I was truly hoping he'd realize she was really clingy and keep his distance, but sadly it didn't happen.

Some of my favorite quotes from the book:

From a letter to Kurt Cobain :

"You sang the fear, and the anger and all of the feelings that people are afraid to admit to. Even me. But I know you didn't want to be an idol. You just wanted to be yourself. You just wanted us to hear the music."


From a letter to River Phoenix:

"Do you think that everyone gets to be a star like that? Do you think that everyone gets to be seen? Gets to be loved? Gets to glow? They don't. They don't get to do it like you did.


And then there was this description at the end that sort of made me go like wtf, because it didn't even make sense. She wrote that her mother smelled like "falling to sleep". What does that even mean? Since when falling asleep has a distinct smell?