✦You’ve reached Sam

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☼SYNOPSIS

Seventeen-year-old Julie 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 things, and tries everything to forget him and the tragic way he died. But a message Sam left behind in her yearbook forces back memories. Desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls Sam’s cellphone just to listen to his voicemail.

And Sam picks up the phone.

In a miraculous turn of events, Julie’s been given a second chance at goodbye. The connection is temporary. But hearing Sam’s voice makes her fall for him all over again, and with each call it becomes harder to let him go. However, keeping her otherworldly calls with Sam a secret isn’t easy, especially when Julie witnesses the suffering Sam’s family is going through. Unable to stand by the sidelines and watch their shared loved ones in pain, Julie is torn between spilling the truth about her calls with Sam and risking their connection and losing him forever.

☾REVIEW

★★★★

Rating: 4 out of 5.

This book oh my god this book made me sob and cry. I mean I literally have been waiting for this for the entire year when I first saw it when the cover was released I was very excited to get my hands on it.

It was obviously a very sad very heartwarming story and it will break your heart however there are a few things about this book that I found a bit upsetting.

So first of all we’re starting with our main character and she’s such a stubborn person she’s so oblivious into not believing that he’s actually dead and that just made me so sad and it broke my heart seeing her having a hope for something that was clearly not going to happen and how she kind of planned her entire future with him and obviously getting to the realization that that was not going to happen it was so harsh to read about.

Then there was the fact that she kind of isolated herself and kind of lost contact with her friends and started contacting Sam and just grew so apart from her friends that were the ones that were supposed to help with the grief process which literally tore me apart.

Also something that It may sound stupid but that I actually need to point out is the fact that the parents were not seen like where the hell were they when their kid is literally grieving for her friends loss and they were not even seen like I get that it’s very much of a friends book and they were all on the same friend group and that is very focused on that but I did find unrealistic the fact that neither of their parents showed up at any time to help her. I just think I missed that because I didn’t feel like she was not helped nor understood. 

She definitely needed a mature relative that helped her into accepting this very harsh 180° that her life took. 

But overall this was stunning their chemistry the main characters, Sam and Julie just- oh my God I want to re read this already!

Please read it, it is 100% worth it!

✦ ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Dustin Thao is a Vietnamese American writer based in New York City. He graduated from Amherst College with a B.A. in Political Science, and is currently in a PhD program at Northwestern University. He writes contemporary fiction, and his debut novel You’ve Reached Sam will be published November 2021 with Wednesday Books. PENNSYLVANIA.ABOUT  AUTHOR