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Miss Windish
10 November 2017
Hard to Let Go
A sorrowful young woman. Grieving from losing her older brother to cancer. Finding love once again. What are these things about? They all are things that are in the book “Love, Lucas”. The author of “Love, Lucas” is Chantele Sedgwick. A mother and a father loses their son to cancer. The daughter of the couple loses her brother, also known as her best friend. Oakley, the daughter, and her mother move to California to live with Oakley’s aunt for a while to get their minds off of things and get a fresh start at things. Lucas, Oakley’s brother, left a journal full of letters that he wrote towards the end of his life. The letters were made for Oakley. Before he died, he told his mother to give the letters to Oakley. If you want to find out what else happens in the book, then you can go read the book “Love, Lucas”.
What did I like about “Love, Lucas”? There were many good qualities about the book “Love, Lucas” that I really liked. One of the good qualities is that how …show more content…
I really like the book, even though it had some things that I didn’t like about it. I think that Chantele could have focused more on Lucas’s death and how that affected the family other than mainly focusing on Oakley’s love life. Other than that, I think it was a very well written book.
I gave the book that rating because even though it has its bad qualities, I still really liked it. I think that in regards of this book, the author could have focused on Oakley losing her brother. There are two main points in the book, losing a loved one, and Oakley finding love again. Chantele Sedgwick mainly focused on Oakley finding love and that whole process, which she could have focused a little bit more on the loss of Lucas. Every book has at least one bad thing about it, but that doesn’t mean that you should give it a bad rating because of that one single flaw about