The Last Letter
Rebecca Yarros, 2019
A romance built on letters, distance, and the risk of letting someone all the way in.
Feels like longing and tenderness. About love and death.
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What it costs to be trusted by someone who has stopped believing.
I would do anything for you.” His eyes locked onto mine in the dashboard lights, intense and a little hurt. “What is it going to take for you to believe me? To trust me? You want my background checked? Do it. You want my credit score? Awesome. My bank account? I’ll add you on. You have my word, my body, my time, and I’m standing here offering my last name. What else can I give you? Rebecca Yarros.The Last Letter came out in 2019, four years before Fourth Wing made Rebecca Yarros globally famous; her early career was in contemporary romance, not fantasy.
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Questions readers ask
- What is The Last Letter like?
- Feels like longing and tenderness. About love and death.
- What should I read after The Last Letter?
- If you liked The Last Letter, try Dear John (Nicholas Sparks), Ugly Love (Colleen Hoover) and From Blood and Ash (Jennifer L. Armentrout).
A taste of the feed
Some love stories are made mostly of the time in between.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.
Dear John · Nicholas Sparks
What love costs when you stop pretending it is beautiful.
Ugly love becomes you. Consumes you. Makes you hate it all. Makes you realize that all the beautiful parts aren’t even worth it. Without the beautiful, you’ll never risk feeling the ugly. So you give it all up. You give it all up. You never want love again, no matter what kind it is, because no type of love will ever be worth living through the ugly love again.
Ugly Love · Colleen Hoover
When someone refuses the title you were given, what are they seeing?
I’m the Maiden, Hawke,” I reminded him – or myself, I wasn’t sure. “And I don’t care.” My eyes flew open in shock. “I can’t believe you just said that.” “I did. And I’ll say it again. I don’t care what you are.” Hawke’s hand slid off my back. A moment later, I felt his palm flatten against my cheek with unerring accuracy. “I care about who you are.
From Blood and Ash · Jennifer L. Armentrout
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