Meredith, a 12-year-old in 7th grade, has just lost her best friend, Anjali, from an infection. The death of Anjali hit Meredith hard because it was unexpected. To cope with her loss, Meredith wrote letters to Anjali. In the letters, Meredith would tell Anjali about going into a private high school, family, drama, and how she hates Wendy Mathinson. At first, Meredith wrote these letters to keep Anjali close in her life, but after a while, Meredith wrote the letters as a way of therapy. Noah, Anjali’s old crush, started to get close to Meredith, Meredith and Noah even started dating. Meredith felt guilty for dating her best friend’s crush, Meredith felt she was betraying Anjali. As Meredith wrote letters to Anjali, she realized that the letters had helped her understand what she was meant to do with her life and that it was time to end the letters to Anjali because Meredith will always have Anjali in her life, with or without letters.

I really enjoyed this book because It made me realize how much losing a best friend would impact someone’s life. Usually in books and movies, if the main character lost a best friend, they talk about it for a couple of minutes in the beginning but never go in-depth about how the loss impacts the main character. In this book, the main character talks about Anjali’s loss in the entire book, and I found that entertaining and refreshing. I recommend this book for people who like watching rom-com teenage drama movies. ( )

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