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A review by euleau
Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
4.0
(4.5 stars)
I had to reread Love Letters to the Dead for a class project and connected to Laurel again on a different level. This book is very hard to process as a teenager, but after a few years of academia I could understand better Laurel's complex grief process and relate to it after the death of my own brother. Laurel's coping mechanisms were very unhealthy, but the author did a fantastic job at not romanticizing Laurel's alcohol abuse but rather using it as a tool to show readers how dangerous it is to rely on these substances during the grief process.
I had to reread Love Letters to the Dead for a class project and connected to Laurel again on a different level. This book is very hard to process as a teenager, but after a few years of academia I could understand better Laurel's complex grief process and relate to it after the death of my own brother. Laurel's coping mechanisms were very unhealthy, but the author did a fantastic job at not romanticizing Laurel's alcohol abuse but rather using it as a tool to show readers how dangerous it is to rely on these substances during the grief process.