Words in Deep Blue

I'm 21 years old but at times I still feel like I'm stuck at 17 or 18 and so I pick up books like this that transport me back to my teenage years. Whenever I write a review of a young adult romance, I feel the need to justify why I still read them. I'm finally realising that I don't need to, though. We need endearingly life-affirming books in our lives. We need light reads to get us through late nights when we can't sleep and need an uplifting book to burrow into (I stayed up all night reading this). I'm not ashamed that young adult romances are the books that comfort me.
My boyfriend moved abroad for a year 3 weeks ago and I've been rereading the Harry Potter series (which we both love) to get through him leaving. They've been so unbelievably soothing. I began watching the Harry Potter movies after I finished the books because I wasn't ready to lose the solace I found in them. After I finished watching the movies, I began googling “Books like Harry Potter” because I still am not ready to let go. This is where I found Words in Deep Blue, in a book list by BookBub Blog promising “10 Books Coming Out This Summer for ‘Harry Potter' Fans”. I read Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley four years ago. I had already began to read Words in Deep Blue when I remembered with a start who Cath Crowley was. If I'd remembered Graffiti Moon before I picked up Words in Deep Blue, I might not have read it. I am glad I didn't because Cath Crowley won me over last night.
“But I love you, and before you say it words do matter. They're not pointless. If they were pointless then they couldn't start revolutions and they wouldn't change history and they wouldn't be the things that you think about every night before you go to sleep. If they were just words we wouldn't listen to songs, we wouldn't beg to be read to when we're kids. If they were just words, then they'd have no meaning and stories wouldn't have been around since before humans could write. We wouldn't have learnt to write. If they were just words then people wouldn't fall in love because of them, feel bad because of them, ache because of them, stop aching because of them, have sex, quite a lot of the time, because of them. ”
The last line of this quote won me over.
This book won me over, because half of it is about the characters falling in love through letters... and that is how I fell in love.