You've Reached Sam

by Dustin Thao

You want to feel something. Something meaningful and intense. You want to feel that thing in your heart and stomach. You want to be moved.

First of all, we need to take a moment to appreciate the beauty of this cover. It has so much detail and I love it when the cover has the characters on it. It makes it look like Julie, the protagonist, is standing in the daylight and Sam is standing in the night and it's just great symbolically.

The quote above sums up what I think this book is trying to say. Of course it's about loss and how to carry on during the grieving process, but it's also about why we fall in love with the people we do. Everyone wants to feel something intense, in our stomachs and hearts, it's how we know what truly moves us, and when we are moved, we take action.

Sam truly moved Julie, and that was why she loved him and why this book is so heartbreaking. A lot of people will be able to relate their losses to Julies, but it's a beautiful message about how to carry those we've loved and lost with us.

One line that lightened this other side dark and heavy story was when the main character said "I saw myself in that baguette", I'm glad that line made it through editing.

It's beautiful inside and out and needs to be on your shelf or in your 'read' pile.

This book is only 293 pages but tells a full story about heartbreak and loss that will bring you to tears multiple times throughout. Julie and Sam has their future planned out, they were going to leave their small town together and Sam was going to make music while Julie went to school and worked on a career in writing.

They met three years before and fell fast and hard. But then, tragedy strikes. Julie is lost without Sam, and doesn't believe it when she gets a phone call from his phone number, When she picks it up, it's him on the other line.

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