The
Last Text You Sent by Elise Fender is a heart breaker of a
story. Not what most would expect by reading the title.
Whit Walker is the ‘’star’’
of the show while his sister Avery Walker ‘’co-stars’’ in it. Their stories are
intertwined as only sibling stories can be. Written in diary entry fashion the
book opens up with Avery Walker going about her life like a normal teenager
awaiting her first kiss at one of her brother’s games.
Tragedy strikes and
Whit sustains a head injury that interrupts the romantic moment and later takes
his life. His family struggle to get over his death showing that their lives
practically revolved around Whit. Without him, they had lost direction and will
to go on.
One day, one of the
paramedics returns her brother’s phone and she discovers that her brother had a
romantic relationship with someone he only saved in his phone as OCMC. The
messages OCMC sends to Whit’s phone makes her realise that not only was her
brother in a relationship she did not know about, but he also had secrets he
wanted to share with her before he died and OCMC did not know that her brother
was dead.
Seeing this as the last
favour, she would ever do for her brother she set out to find OCMC with great
difficulty but also rekindled an old flame. Only to find that the person she
had been looking for was right under her nose.
The story explores the
relationship between siblings and has that theme as the main plot and romance
as a sub plot. Within this quest, Avery not only learns from her brother but
from Jack’s aunt who also lost her brother about love, relationships, and
family. Whit’s death though a tragedy forces new relationships to be forged and
strengthens old and existing ones.
I recommend this book
to young adult audiences and give it a rating of 5 out 5 stars. I found no negative aspects or grammatical errors,
which made for a smooth read.
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