A review by abbiewj
You've Reached Sam by Dustin Thao

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was such a great read!  It only took me 3 days so it’s a super easy and quick one.  It was quite hard for me to put down cause I wanted to reach the end and see what happened with Julie and Sam. 

Seeing Julie go through this grief was so emotional.  I’ve never experienced grief like that before, but I could empathise with her.  I understood why she bottled things up, pushed people away and isolated herself.  

I do wish we had some more of the fun memories with Julie and Sam, but I guess that wasn’t really the point of the book.  I just loved Julie and Sam so freaking much I needed to see more moments of them together🥺 

I also think it would have been a cool addition for there to be a few chapters from Sams pov at the end.  I would have loved to know what he was thinking when he died, when he arrived in his heavenly place, what it looked like, how it was for him calling with Julie even though he’s dead, ect…

From all the reviews I’ve seen, I was fully expecting the flood gates to be opened, flooding happening in my eyes and fully ruining the book.  But.. and I’m being 100% truely honest here… I didn’t cry once.. 
there were times where I could feel the onset feeling of crying, but I never actually shed any tears.  Maybe I didn’t connect enough with the main characters, I’m not too sure… 

But overall it was a great read and I’d definitely recommend it!  But make sure to check the tws🫶