A beautiful, heartfelt story with surprising depth. Grab tissues and settle in for the long haul because you won't be able to put this one down, and I guarantee you'll finish it crying. But please don't let that stop you from reading this beautifully written, emotionally charged story that now sits on my Favorites Shelf. It's truly an experience - a deeply rooted, character-based story that pushed all my buttons. The title, The Last Letter, is woven into the storyline in more ways than one. I found myself sitting long after I finished - thinking about this story and its relevance. Please avoid all spoilers and read this book. I don't think it'll be the same if you know how the story plays out when you begin. Because a very wise woman told me once that you can’t reason with the universe, no matter how sound your logic is. And that we can either breathe through the pain or we can let it shape us. So I’m sure that we’ll take it breath by breath until the ache lessens just a tiny bit.”

While the Netflix film adaptation stays fairly true to the book’s plot, some elements are different. In the novel, Ellie has a difficult affair with a married man named John, who does not appear in the movie. Instead, Ellie is recovering from a rough breakup and has a sweet love interest named Rory (Nabhaan Rizwan) who works in the archives department of her newspaper. Their romance heats up as he helps her hunt for the love letters between Jennifer and “B.” I finished this book nearly 2 weeks ago. Fourteen days and my heart is still shattered, yet so full of love for this story. It is so hard to put into words what this book is for me. And the love that I have for this author. I have followed Mrs. Yarros for years, read her books, loved them, and followed her blog on her life adventures. Let me say this, if you haven’t read this author, you are truly missing out. There is so much heart in her stories, she lays her heart out in her words. And this book, by far my favorite so far. In Augustine Frizzell’s “The Last Letter From Your Lover,” women have complicated relationships to their pasts — in more ways than one. I’ve tried to talk to no fewer than half a dozen people about this book and I’ve choked up every time and done that flaily hand thing where I wave it in front of my face as if that’s going to help keep my emotions from leaking out of my eyes.

Still, I liked Ellie and Rory. Their love story was cuter and lighter with just a touch of drama. Conclusion Ellie’s love story was short! Another reader’s review on GoodReads aired that same sentiment. She said that we were already way too wrapped up in Jennifer and “B’s” love story. When Ellie was finally introduced it was almost unnecessary to have her love story written in. The author actually wrote this before her bestselling ‘Me Before You’ and the movie of the same name. I'm sitting on the couch, letting the tears fall down my cheeks untouched. Why stop them when more will come? The film is set to release internationally on Netflix on 23rd July 2021. However, as Netflix does not have the UK rights to the film, the film will be released in UK and Ireland on 6th August 2021 by Studio Canal in theatres. In Scandanavia the film will release on 30th July 2021 by distributor ‘SVENSK’.

At this point, I can't even conjure up the required emotions for all that has happened. It's too much. It's too unrealistic. How can anyone survive this many tragedies in such a short period of time? I'm too busy trying to calculate the probability of all of these things happening and I'm pretty sure you have a better chance winning the lotto than to have this many, and this rare, of things happen to just one person in this little of time. And most of all, when everything seems to get better for the couple and for the little girl’s health, the author decides to have them live the most horrible ordeal by killing Ella’s second kid in an accident. WHY? What’s the point of this? Didn’t they suffer enough? It’s a gratuitous death and that made me rage (after I finished crying my eyes out). Ellie and Jennifer’s stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel – interspersed with real ‘last letters’. The problem is, I really liked the writing. I thought (for the most part) that the characters were well-written and developed. Sure the kids seemed older than their age, but maybe circumstances forced that. And while there were times that Ella annoyed me, she felt human. But I just couldn't get over the amount of catastrophic events that happened to her. It's surprising she didn't become catatonic. This book was such an emotional rollercoaster. It was about survival, forgiveness, grief, hope, and healing. It’s also about love, not just romantic love, but the unconditional love of another person’s wellbeing.

This book, or I should say this author, made me really upset. The Last Letter is one of these books where the writer puts their characters through every horrible thing they can think of to make the story very dramatic. And when you think that after everything the characters endured they will get a happy ending, they don't! I feel so cheated!

And don’t start me on the “graduation scene”!!! I cried in the train (yes once again) and did all that I could to hide my tears behind my semi long hair!!!!

Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist. Moyes' novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004. Recommend it? Absolutely if you are looking for gorgeous stories bashing your little heart again and again. If you hate angsty reads …abstain! Like Me Before You, The Last Letter from Your Lover is breezily watchable, featuring two individually compelling, mostly flaw-free leads whose sparks don’t really get fused together. But it’s not likely to conjure any tears. The Last Letter from Your Lover’s production falls somewhere between cinema and TV movie; it’s decently costumed but hazily lit, baseline entertaining but straining for genuine feeling. Not quite a charming romcom and not nearly the sweeping romance it thinks it is, the film finds an airless middle ground – toggling between two love stories, neither particularly sizzling, the passion suggested by the letters read repeatedly in voiceover not nearly matched by the characters onscreen.