More Than We Can Tell (Letters to the Lost #02) - Brigid Kemmerer

Title: More Than We Can Tell (Letters to the Lost #02)
Author: Brigid Kemmerer
Rating: 3.5 / 5

Thanks to NetGalley and Bloomsbury Publishing for letting me receive a digital copy of this book before its official release date.

Every day Rev struggles with the memories and demons of the time before he was adopted. He’s always managed just fine, until a letter from his birth father brings hellfire, fear and danger back into his life.

Emma escapes her life in an online game she built herself. Virtual reality is so much easier than real life. But then another player joins the game and suddenly ultra-violent threats start to stream in...

When Rev and Emma meet, they are fighting a darkness they can’t put into words. But somehow they hear each other and together they might be able to find a way out...

I can see teens devoring this book at their local library or even at their library in school, so of course libraries need this book. They really do. I like to think that there are certain types of books that should be able to access through public libaries and More Than We Can Tell is one of them.

I loved the idea of a gamer girl. Not a gamer boy, but a gamer girl. Emma is the queen of the computer nerds, only nobody really knows it. She created an online game that people all around the world are playing, but nobody knows who created the game. That's Emma's secret. Naturally, she also wants to build herself a future in the computer and coding business. She got that from her dad who's a specialist. But then there is this guy (though you never know on the Internet) who trolls her, sends her angry messages just because he hates the idea of a girl in the gaming business - as a player or a business woman.

She bumps into Rev who's got a few secrets of his own, one of them his father being religious and abusive. Or well, he was. Rev was lucky enough to have two wonderful human beings as his adoptive parents. The way Rev was described, I immediately fell in love with him. He's just such a teen novel kind of boy. I loved that. With him and Emma meeting each other on a regular basis, their friendship grows more and more intense. Their meetings were the cutest I have ever read about and them as a couple... Perfect!

But the secrets they both keep from each other, might also be the ones that tear them apart and even if they open up, it's not like these things just disappear from their lives. And my, I cried when I read about Rev dealing with his situation. The way his feelings were described, those scenes. I just couldn't take it and had to let it out. The turn Emma's problem took was a bit too predictable to me, though. But well... There's really no other way to solve it, is there?!

So all in all I can safely say that I adored this book and enjoyed every minute of it. Seriously, I'm curious for Dylan's (Rev's best friend) story now. The first book in the series revolved around him, but I'm not sure what to think of the female part, so I'm not sure if I'll give it a chance any time soon. Anyway... You should give More Than We Can Tell a chance (perfect title, by the way).