Review: The Last Words We Said
The Last Words We Said by Leah Scheier Simon & Schuster Category: Young Adult Reviewer: Michelle Falkoff Buy at Bookshop.org Ellie, Rae, Deenie, and Danny were best friends who all attended a Jewish high school together. Now Danny is gone, and they have to deal with their problems without him. Ellie, his girlfriend, can’t accept that Danny isn’t coming back; she still sees him everywhere, though he’s not as nice to her as he used to be. Rae struggles with wanting to be more modern than their Modern Orthodox community would prefer, while Deenie has gone in the opposite direction, becoming so religious and restrictive that even her rabbi father is worried about her. Over the course of the novel, all three girls grapple with Danny’s absence and their changing friendship. Ellie, as the narrator, thinks she’s the most affected, and the book takes us through her process of dealing with the loss of her first love. But she also learns that her friends’ issues are far more