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The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

426 pages

5/5*

Romantic Fiction  

Formats available: physical book, eBook Libby, eAudiobook Hoopla (Spanish)

Beckett,

If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.Cover of "The last letter"

I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.

My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair.

And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help.

So if I’m gone, that means I can’t be there for Ella. I can’t help them through this. But you can. So I’m begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family.

Please don’t make her go through it alone.

Ryan

I was SUPER hesitant going into this book because I tend to stray away from military romance and contemporary romance in general. Rebecca Yarros really took me by surprise with this one, since it is so wildly different from Fourth Wing, which I had previously read. I tend to lean toward small-town settings in books, so I was instantly drawn into The Last Letter. Yarros did great describing main character, Ella’s, bed-and-breakfast that allowed me to mentally picture the setting while I was reading. 

 I pretty much went into this book blind, thinking that it would be a cute romance. While the romance in the book between Ella and Beckett was swoon worthy, the book itself was heartbreaking and tragic throughout. Yarros does an excellent job incorporating the struggles of a single mother who is going through so many tough situations while trying to keep her head up for her kids and navigate her own life at the same time. 

 If you plan to pick this book up (which I HIGHLY recommend), please come equipped with tissues and maybe some chocolate. Overall, I gave this book a solid 5/5*. It kept me interested from cover to cover, and I truly did not want to put it down.

-Samantha

*Trigger Warnings: child terminal illness/death, military drama, intense grief*