You've Reached Sam

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The characters were all great, but there wasn’t a lot of layering or development. They were pretty flat.

I loved how diverse this book was, how it dealt with emotions, not only read, I felt them. Every word was piercing my heart. The characters, the diversity, the wide range of topics it covered while dealing with the main focus of handling loss and grief. It’s outstanding. It’ll teach you multiple lessons, loads and loads! Never forgetting, Julie and Sam were gold! The “Before” chapters are so unique in the way they’re written. In the memoirs, you see a visual of it playing in your head as if it were a movie. You can’t help but fall in love with the way it’s written and the seamless transition from one memory to the next. About this one… I understand that teenagers can sometimes be extremely mean. Hell, most of the time I’m scared of them myself. That said, we have got to stop portraying people from this age group as these heartless, stupid, unbelievable beings. If anything, I would have thought that having Julie experience survivor’s guilt would have been a hell of a lot more believable than having other people randomly tell her that she killed her boyfriend. But I digress, maybe some teenagers are actually like that and I’ve just never met them?😅The romance in Your Name was effective in that we were able to slowly watch the connection build up between the characters before the heart-wrenching part happens (if you watched it, you know what i mean). Here it was kind of done the other way around and while I think the premise was really promising and interesting, I had a hard time feeling a connection to Sam and Julie like I did with the main characters in it’s anime comp. I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher (thank you!) in exchange for an honest review. **

Kill me, why won't you? I don't have a basement, but I have a bookshelf. Donate the pieces of my body to be made into books. The rest of the characters as previously mentioned, didn't do much for the story, and I would've loved for it to be otherwise. Alas, not all happily ever afters are possible. The story idea is simple: a grieving girlfriend discovers that she can talk by cell phone to her boyfriend after he dies. If you’ve ever lost a loved one, you’ve probably thought of, dreamed of, pleaded with your god for the opportunity to share one last conversation. Why couldn’t I have gotten to read THAT story?Hellooooo, it's me. I was woooondering if afterrr all these years you'd like to meeeeet. Sorry, the opportunity was too much to miss. In addition to the secret calls to her dead boyfriend, Julie is also plagued with uncomfortable dreams about Sam and difficult situations. A foreign exchange student friend named Yuki gives Julie a moon crystal that she says will “ward away negative energy.” Julie carries the crystal with her, and it appears to help. I usually don’t read dark books, I tend to avoid these sides, but the depth such books have can never be ignored! They make you feel something, make you part of them and this book did exactly that.