The Last Letter cover art

The Last Letter

A Novel

 Preview
Subscribe now Free with 30-day trial
Offer ends on 14 April, 2026 at 23:59.
Prime logo
Pay ₹5/month for 2 months and ₹199/month after 2 months, Cancel anytime. Offer ends on 14 April 2026 at 23:59. Take this offer!
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep.
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks.
Download titles to your library and listen offline.
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

The Last Letter

Written by: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Jennifer Stark
Subscribe now Free with 30-day trial

Pay ₹5/month for 2 months and ₹199/month after 2 months, Cancel anytime. Offer ends on 14 April 2026 at 23:59.

₹199 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for ₹836.00

Buy Now for ₹836.00

LIMITED TIME OFFER | Get 2 Months for ₹5/month

About this listen

“The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story.“ (InTouch Weekly)

Beckett,

If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.

I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.

My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone. She’s too independent and won’t accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It’s too much for anyone to endure. It’s not fair.

And here’s the kicker: there’s something else you don’t know that’s tearing her family apart. She’s going to need help.

So if I’m gone, that means I can’t be there for Ella. I can’t help them through this. But you can. So I’m begging you, as my best friend, go take care of my sister, my family.

Please don’t make her go through it alone.

Ryan

©2019 Rebecca Yarros (P)2019 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Military
All stars
Most relevant
I picked this semi-epistolary book, because it is a great form of writing. I love such books. But, I didn't know this book was going to be sad too. The sadness did not force tears out of me, but it stunned me to silence. Call it a stoicism of sorts.

Ella is a young single parent to twins - Maizy and Colt. Having been dumped in life one too many times, she has lost the trust factor in relationships. She runs a beautiful bread and breakfast sort of space in a small town. Life is slow, predictable and okay.

Her brother, Ryan is in the army and deployed in some unknown location. 'Chaos', Ryan's best mate, had no home or family. He did not know what it meant to have loved ones wait for you. He was all that you imagine of a hero - drop dead gorgeous, patient, kind and duty driven. Ryan encourages Chaos and his sister to exchange letters - who does not like to read mail when you are sitting in some bunker awaiting death or enemy? So that starts a beautiful friendship.

As time goes, life proves itself yet again that it is unpredicatable. Ella faces a major catastrophe - Ryan is killed in battlefield, her daughter is diagnosed with an aggressive cancer and there is no trace of Chaos.

But, one bright morning a stranger walks into Ella's bed n breakfast. He books himself into this place for 7 months and in due course tells Ella that his name was Beckett Gentry and he was Ryan's best friend. He was there on Ryan's request to always look after his sister and the twins. Not wanting help from anywhere, Ella initially keeps away from Beckett. But, the ice melts, friendship turns into a wonderful romance. But the nature of life is never to trust that all will always go well.

Why is Beckett Gentry so bent upon looking after Ella and the kids? How many more curve balls is life going to thrown on Ella? Should Ella trust Beckett? Can a retired soldier resume civil life and join the pieces of his broken life? Where did Chaos disappear? Did he die alongside Ryan?

This story has answers to all these questions.

IMHO, I liked the book quite a bit. But, I find it difficult to believe in these "heroes" who are so perfect and not an ounce of meanness in them. Where are such good men in real life?! Then, I am reminded that this is fiction!

I also felt the book stretched the sadness quotient a little too much. That could have been avoided. Also, sometimes dialogues turn too philosophical, but that's okay.

There are about two-three detailed intimate scenes in the book. I felt it was okay for it to be included as it probably showed that no matter how broken Beckett was as a person, he had so much love to give. So treat this with fair discretion.

Trigger Warning - Loss of a child. I cannot imagine pain of losing a child in real life. I don't enjoy it in fiction either. By the time this scenario plays out in the story, it is almost the end of the book. I wish the author had just ended the story as a happy ever after. This tragedy was not required. It didn't teach anyone anything. I was not very happy about the summarizing and moving of timeline to show that life goes on after tragedy. Although there is a satisfactory ending.

This is nothing like a Khaled Hosseini kind of heartbreak book so you can pick it up if you like a little mush and a soft palette reading. I listened to it on Audible and the narration is good.

Sad but every cloud has a silver lining

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was a wonderful story with amazing characters and an unexpected storyline.
The narrators have done an amazing job too.

Beautiful, heartbreaking story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story starts and you say this is plagiarism of " The Lucky One" but you still cannot stop listening to the story and then comes the ending, completely unexpected. You are left heart broken but wishing a longer epilog.

loved the book.

What started as a plot heard before ended wrenching your heart

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.