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Unfortunately I could not connect and empathise with the characters of Rev and Emma and I felt I needed to if the hound adult romance side of the book was going to ring true, The story plodded along, going nowhere, and by half way through I didn’t care and so gave up on Emma, Rev and the book.

This just wasn't for me - I'm not a massive fan of gaming in novels, especially virtual reality, and I was hoping there would be more to the story but I couldn't look past it.

I’m so late to the party with this book and it had already well and truly sucked me in before I realised it was a sequel to a book I haven’t read. Thankfully this didn’t matter.

I fell for Rev and Emma straight away. I can’t go past an outcast, troubled teen story, especially when the characters are dealing with so many huge things on top of simply surviving adolescence.

““Thank you.”
“For what?”
“Seeing me.””

Rev was fostered and eventually adopted by Geoff and Kristin after he was removed from his preacher father’s care. Rev’s father has made contact with him for the first time in ten years and it’s bringing back all of the emotions and memories he’s tried so hard to bury. Rev hides beneath his hoodie.

Emma’s mother is critical of her and her father, who she adores, is too busy with technology to be aware of anything that’s happening in her life. Emma is really proud of the game she designed but online isn’t the safe space it used to be. Emma hides behind her computer.

“I think I need someone real, too”

Rev and Emma worked so well together. I am a tad obsessed with the scene where they sit back to back texting because it’s easier than sitting face to face talking.

““I’m not good at this.”
“Not good at what?”
He gestures between us. “This. I’m not - I’m not good with people.”
“I’m not either.””

Their awkwardness endeared them to me. Their courage to face their past and present encouraged me. The fact that they retained some softness rather than being made up entirely of sharp edges inspired me. I love underdog stories!

Where Emma’s arc led her was predictable and we never found out for sure who N1ghtmare was, although I suspect they were the person she was in the car when with she sent Rev her location.

I would step in front of a speeding train for Texas, Emma’s Labrador. She can have as many chicken nuggets as she wants.

I hurt for Matthew. The secrets he’s been carrying are absolutely heartbreaking. I need to know what his life looks like in the years after this book.

I spent most of the book wanting to know more about Declan, wishing I could read his story. Lo and behold, the author has already worked their magic. Dec is one of the stars of the first book, which I bought as soon as I finished reading this one. It’ll be my next read. Because Dec and Rev are best friends, I’ll also get to hang out with Rev some more.

My main niggle was with Cait’s character. She had so much potential, yet she was pushed to the background for most of the story. I need her to teach me how to do makeup.

“Once she made her face look like she was unzipping her skin”

I’ll be her guinea pig whenever she wants to experiment with new weird and wonderful makeup ideas.

As usual, I sent a test email to Robert and Rev’s email addresses. Neither of them wanted to talk to me; both emails were undeliverable.

Favourite no context quote: “We all push sometimes, just to make sure someone is on the other side, pushing back.”

Content warnings include emotional abuse, foster care, miscarriage, online harassment, physical abuse, religious abuse, sexual assault and stalking. Readers with emetophobia may have trouble with one scene.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Bloomsbury Children's Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, for the opportunity to read this book. I’m rounding up from 4.5 stars.

I will not be giving feedback on this book as I couldn’t really get into it but I think others may enjoy it.

I didn’t mean to finish this book in 11 hours but I just could not put it down. This was such an emotional rollercoaster and I loved getting to see more of Rev and being introduced to Emma, I became attached to both of them and I definitely think is a book everybody should read.

Unfortunately I no longer wish to review this book as the first few chapters did not reel me in. Thank you for the opportunity.

A long long time ago, I received an ARC of this from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I have no idea how this book fell off my radar, but I’m glad that this civic lockdown gave me the time to find it again. I’ve read so many books from this author and I think this one might be my favourite.
I tend to evaluate books based on my emotional response, and man, this one had me riding the entire spectrum of emotions. I was laughing, crying, getting angry....the works. It was so heartbreaking and really really touching. I loved loved loved the characters and it was nice to see some familiar faces from Letters to the Lost.
I honestly wish there was another book in this series because I feel like I’d gobble it up like I did this one. I read this book in an afternoon. I quite literally could not put it down.
Great job and I’m so happy I finally read it.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to read and review this book.

After losing and replacing my broken Kindle and getting a new phone I was unable to download the title again for review as it was no longer available on Netgalley.

I’m really sorry about this and hope that it won’t affect you allowing me to read and review your titles in the future.

Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.
Natalie.

I really, really enjoyed this one! I found Brigid through A Curse So Dark and Lonely and decided that I wanted to read everything she has written. This was very different to ACSDAL and it was really refreshing. Brigid is able to move towards contemporary and fiction/fantasy beautifully and I think that shows great skill. I really enjoyed reading from both main characters and I felt like I was able to be 'in their heads' really easily, even when the themes were definitely not light or fluffy. It was so easy to read and I was able to breeze through it. I think Brigid did a great job with More Than We Can Tell and I can't wait to continue working through all of her published books.

First things first, this is a sequel from Kemmerer, and I read it as a standalone, therefore, if you read and enjoyed the first book and continue to this one, you may have a much better reading experience - that being said, I quite enjoyed this one. I really love contemporary fictions that deal with heavy topics and feel as though these books need to continue to be pushed and published. I also really respected the tackling of topics like the foster care system etc. which were handled well and showed different perspectives. However, I felt as though the book was just TOO LONG and very repetitive and therefore, I'm just meh about it.

After adoring Letters to the Lost, I waited far too long to read Rev's story and that's my bad but it was really good and just what I'd hoped to get for Rev’s story.

In Letters to the Lost we all knew Rev had a dark backstory, I mean, he was abused by his dad and was preached at and blamed each time he was hurt. That’s messed up and my heart broke for him each time we learnt something new because a guy that good and that kind did not deserve such a past. He got lucky and was adopted by a truly wonderful couple who couldn’t have been kinder. I cried when I read about why they adopted him and how they developed a connection with Rev. And when you found out the reason they’ve continued to foster children after they’d adopted Rev was because he asked them why they hadn’t. I mean, even once he had a safe home he still wanted his parents to help out others. That’s a truly good person.

Rev was kind-hearted, but he still had so many issues to work through from the abuse of his father and this is what we get in this book. He has to reconcile his father was to blame, not him, for everything that happened to him. Rev was paranoid that he was going to become like his father and he was nothing like that man. It was slow going but he did finally realise it. He had me crying because I cared so much for him and I wanted him to believe the best in his self. His progression in believing himself was helped by a new foster kid that was taken in, Matthew. He was older, a teenager, when he came to them, the oldest child that they’d taken in and this was a new experience for Rev. He worried about how he would react to having someone he could potentially hurt in the house. He thought he could harm him and Matthew helped him slowly realise that he wasn’t that type of person.

Rev was also helped along by Emma. I know this was very much Rev’s book, but it was a little bit Emma’s too. She was not my favourite character, but I liked that a lot of this book was about women in gaming and the sheer amount of abuse they receive simply for their gender. It’s disgusting and it’s half the reason I hate laying online in games because I just don’t want to put up with the idiots you always get that it’s a man’s world. I really respected her passion for gaming and her dedication for trying to make it in the gaming industry, she developed her very own game and she hadn’t even left school But because of it she faced abuse from an online troll who hated women and took it out on her. She was struggling with that when she met Rev by accident and slowly a connection developed. They had a sweet friendship and romance and Rev very much deserved this. Emma wasn’t perfect, I mean she made some idiot choices towards the end of the book, but I got why, but she helped Rev and he helped her and it was what he needed. He needed someone outside of his friends and family to help him realise a few things and drive him outside of his comfort zone and moving forward.

This was exactly the story we deserved for Rev and I’m so glad I read it in the end. I may have been slow about it but I’m so happy to see this book on my shelf.

I ADORED this, I loved the first one, and this sequel was just as good. The writing is fantastic! I got sucked in so fast!

This was really disappointing. I loved Letters to the Lost but this one just didn't do it for me. I thought I would have enjoyed it a lot more because Rev was one of my faves in the 1st book, but he just wasn't great in this book. Emma, the other narrator was even worse and is the reason I gave 2 stars instead of 3.

Please note that this book is not for me - I have read the book, However I had to DNF and because i do not like to give negative reviews I will not review this book fully - there is no specific reason for not liking this book. I found it a struggle to read and did not enjoy trying to force myself to read this book.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused and thank you for the opportunity to read this book

Soooooo gooooood! Took me a bit before I got around to it, but ahhh! So happy that I did! Loved this one so much! Everyone needs to read it!

I already loved Leter To The Lost and I couldn't wait for Rev's story.
This book definitely exceeded my expectations and I couldn't put it down ince I started reading it.
You could tell that Brigid Kemmerer was researching a lot on the serious topics she mentions in this books and it felt so real. I had goosebumps at times and some things really made me angry. This book definitely made me feel things.
I personally also really enjoyed the Characters, especially Rev and Matthew. They both were so great and I hope there will be more about Matthew because I feel like there is so much more to his story than we found out in this book. Emma wasn'tthe most sympathetic person but she was still fleshed out properly which I liked because we could always understand her reactions.
The one thing I didn't like was the way that online friendship has been handled. The way it was portrayed was pretty realistic because things like that happened but I wish it wouldn't have been shown in a complete negative way because you can also make some great friends online.
All in all I loved this book and it was just as good as the first one.

I liked the characters in this book, and basically the whole friendship that was in it. I think the dynamics between them were done really well, and I liked how it wasn’t an insta love story, but it was focused more on them as individuals and their interactions throughout the whole entire book.

I liked how different the characters turned out to be, because in my mind I pictured them some way and they ended up being completely different. I have to say that it was a bit tough to read sometimes, because it dealth with much darker topics, like abuse, so have that in mind if you want to pick it up.

However, I freaking adored the parental figures. I wasn’t the biggest fan of Emma’s mother at the beginning of the book, because she was pretty much out of the picture, but I started to like her more as the book progressed. But Rev’s parents were awesome. They were the kind of supportive and caring parents I love seeing in YA books, because not only they took after their kid, but also respected him and supported his decisions, and let me tell you that’s something that warms my heart everytime.

I really liked the character development of our two protagonists throughout the book, but I may say that there were a few things that happened towards the end that were a bit too predictable to me. I don’t know if that was the author’s purpose the whole entire time, and she was foreshadowing some things in certain scenes, but yeah, I knew ever since almost the very beginning.

I still enjoyed how the story ended, because I feel it was a bit different from what usually people think about that, but I would have loved to be a bit more surprised, I guess.

Something I didn’t know previously is that this book is set in the same universe as Letters to the Los, another book of hers, but talks about different characters and is considered a standalone and not part of a series. However, it’s true that the two main characters of LTTL appeared in this book, and you knew a few snippets of their story, so maybe read the other one before you read this one, because otherwise you’ll probably know a few spoilers about said novel.

Overall, I think it was a really good book! I thoroughly enjoyed the whole cast of characters, and how they changed, and I’ll definitely be picking up Letters to the Lost, because since I loved the side characters that much, I figure it was about time to do so!

I loved this sequel spin off from Letters to the Lost.
This story follows Rev and Emma who both have dark pasts and secrets to hide.
They come together to reveal their secrets to each other and find they need each other the most.
I love how raw and realistic the book was and I loved seeing the alternate chapters.
Brigid is very good in her writing.
I could see Rev was a quiet and dark character. I could see he wanted to hide in the shade.
Two thumbs up for this book.
I can't wait to read more from Brigid.

Honestly I was so excited when I heard this book existed! The #1 thing I said when I finished Letters to the Lost was: "I want REV'S STORY." (Also I freaking love what is full name is and why he chose it.) Although I do think my expectations were very high, maybe unfairly so...and it didn't quite live up to LtTL for me.

I love Rev so much!! I love how vulnerable and anxious he is in this book. His abusive father is trying to get in contact with him and he hasn't seen this abuser in 10 years. So it's HUGELY stressful and Rev's ashamed of how scared he is. AKA, he hides it. I hate that he did this, especially with how Declan let Rev in on all his issues! And Rev is cutting him out?! But at the same time, I tried to get into Rev's head and understand. He has such bad PTSD and always covers his scars and he was so fragile even though he was a badass martial artist and everything. I loved reading about an emotional boy. He does a lot of growth in this book too and just...remembering that he's loved. Gaining control over himself again. Letting people in and not being ashamed.

Emma on the other hand, I admit I struggled with. I'm trying to pull myself up on labelling girls "unlikeable" especially when I LOVE Declan and he's unlikeable in his book. But Emma was cruel. She had a lot of girl-on-girl snark/hate to her BFF (who literally does nothing but support her) which felt ridiculous? And Emma just sniped at her for NO REASON. But like at the same time I get it??? She was being harassed online (that's frikkin scary ok) and her parents paid 0% attention to her and were totally uprooting her life...and agh. I just...I felt for her. I don't think girls need to be "nice" all the time. But I don't think ANYONE gets to be cruel. Also her storyline felt unbalanced with much lower stakes compared to Rev's.

I FREAKING LOVE DECLAN HERE. You don't need to have read Letters to the Lost to appreciate this too. But Declan is just as abrasive and loving as always. He's such an angry cinnamon son I love him.

Also Rev gets a new foster brother, Matthew, and I WANT MATTHEW'S BOOK NOW. He's so tragic and his past was heartbreaking and I don't think we really got to explore it enough! (I actually think he needed more closure tbh. But I'll sit here and root for his book so.)

The story is VERY high key and emotional too. The ending stressed me tf out. I can't even. Just like smash my heart everywhere.

More Than We Can Tell is definitely a heartfelt book full of raw emotion and aching themes. This didn't tear me up like LtTL because I felt the stakes were lower and I really struggled to connect/care about Emma. I just wanted Rev's story line and more of Matthew. But it's still so emotional and talks a lot about having control of your life, of needing people to tell you again and again (and again if you need it) that you are wanted and loved.