You've Reached Sam
A Novel
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You've Reached Sam
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Narrated by:
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Soneela Nankani
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By:
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Dustin Thao
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
If I Stay meets Your Name in Dustin Thao's You've Reached Sam, a heartfelt audiobook 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 Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books
Julie is dealing with the grief and loss of her boyfriend Sam. Julie gets a second chance at her goodbye however when Sam mysteriously answers her call.
It has a similar theme to History is All You Left Me, although this is a much more palatable softer form of grief that is honestly incredibly relatable.
Grief is different for everyone and therefore not always easy to depict. I honestly believe Dustin Thao did an amazing job at describing the process of grief for some people.
I would recommend this to all who want a good cry or want something on the more emotional side.
*After this point may be spoilers*
Julie's character tends to flip and flop through her emotions and decisions which is only indicative of her grieving process. It is hard, at the beginning to relate to or like Julie because of this, but we can see through flashbacks that isn't her normally.
Julie's relationship with Sam and the loss of him really only starts to develop when she realises how others are handling things around her, showing her its okay to continue and its okay to not want to let go.
A touching view on Grief and Grieving
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I didn’t care for the characters and felt there was plot points missing and inconsistencies.
I also found it hard at times to tell when characters were speaking, the inflections and tones also didn’t match the conversation at times and sounded weird.
DNF
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