More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer

Rev shares brief memories of physical abuse at the hands of his father: a forced tattoo, a burn, broken arm, etc. Rev meets a girl outside a church several times, which also carries this unspoken feeling that he feels safe near religious things. Nevertheless, he still feels a close bond with the Bible, though we more often see him use it to govern his behavior rather than as a source of comfort. Rev was raised by an abusive father who misused scripture as an excuse to torture him. Rev himself feels negatively about cursing.Įmma receives threatening emails which contain sexual innuendo. Moderate profanity used fairly infrequently. He’s white and his (adoptive) parents are black. I loved both Letters to the Lost and More than We Can Tell and I absolutely can’t wait to see what story she tells next. I can’t help but hope that a story like this will continue to bring light to these situations and start some conversations or change some hearts.īrigid Kemmerer is quickly becoming one of those authors whose books I want to pre-order as soon as the option becomes available. I also love that it features not only a hardcore gamer girl, but one who coded her very own online video game! Go, girl! The experiences she describes as a player-the way some other players say ugly things or harass her-is terrible but too true.

Getting to know more about Rev and his history and getting to see him confront his inner demons sucked me straight into the heart of this tale. If I didn’t read it in one sitting, I read it in two. So finally, I broke down and started to read.Īnd even though I’m still not getting a lot of sleep with my new littlest one underfoot, I could not put this book down.

Then once I got the copy in my hands, I worried about how it would stack up to Letters. I loved Letters to the Lost, which was Kemmerer’s debut novel, and as soon as I heard that one of the characters from that story-Rev-would be starring in his own companion novel, I knew I had to get ahold of a copy. But when their situations turn dangerous, their trust in each other will be tested in ways they never expected. When Rev and Emma meet, they both long to lift the burden of their secrets and bond instantly over their shared turmoil. She can solve any problem with the right code, but when an online troll’s harassment escalates, she’s truly afraid.

But with loving adoptive parents by his side, he’s managed to keep them at bay…until he gets a letter from his abusive father and the trauma of his childhood comes hurtling back.Įmma Blue spends her time perfecting the computer game she built from scratch, rather than facing her parents’ crumbling marriage. Rev Fletcher is battling the demons of his past.

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More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer