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.