You've Reached Sam: A Novel
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If I Stay meets Your Name in Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam, a heartfelt novel about love and loss and what it means to say goodbye.
Seventeen-year-old Julie Clarke has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city; spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes.
Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws out his belongings, and tries everything to forget him. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces memories to return. Desperate to hear him one more time, Julie calls Sam's cell phone just to listen to his voice mail recording. And Sam picks up the phone.
The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam's voice makes Julie fall for him all over again and with each call, it becomes harder to let him go.
What would you do if you had a second chance at goodbye?
A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection
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Community Reviews
This book has me lost for words. I knew this book would break my heart and sit definitely delivered those blows. This was such a sweet, sentimental story buuuuuut I really just didn't like the main character, Julie. She annoyed me in a way I just couldn't entirely place my finger on it. Everyone grieves differently but even during flashback I found her a bit selfish. Sam also seemed entirely too perfect. I still loved this little story and I can't wait to see what happens in the next ones.
I had been really excited to read this book with all the hype it had received. I was hoping for something to make me feel similar to how I felt with "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas" by Yoru Sumino.
While it pulled at my heartstrings and had me shedding some tears, some of that emotional connection was overshadowed by grammatical errors that should have easily been caught in the editing process.
If you are a person who can read beyond errors then you may love this book but for me there were just too many causing distractions; especially in a finished copy.
When I am reviewing an ARC I already have in my mind that I may come across some errors that will be fixed before final approval of publication but with a finished copy I am not expecting so many blatant errors, if that makes sense.
Overall I thought the storyline was interesting and was intrigued by the paranormal aspect of it, but found the writing to be a bit underdeveloped.
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