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 This book was given to me in return for a review. 
 Letters to Nowhere is exactly the kind of book I've been looking for. Well, I won't say exactly because it's not as if it's completely cookie-cutter within its genre and sub-genres, but I mean in terms of what the main character is going through: grief. Karen is a griever, and a very passionate one; she doesn't just accept that her parents are dead and move on. She fights between what she wants and what her parents wanted for her, trying to decide if she should honor a plan they had worked out for her or just go full-tilt on her elite gymnast career now that she's living with her coach and there's no one to stop her or tell her that she should keep her options open. 
 At its core, it is a pretty good book. It does get rather heavy on the gymnastics language and it isn't always easy to get through or visualize, speaking as someone who knows absolutely nothing about gymnastics. Of course fans of reading who also like gymnastics will pick this up so I can't say it's an entirely bad thing that the author doesn't water-down the language; do it too much and it makes it look more like you simply threw it in as a gimmick and didn't bother to do much more than a Wikipedia search about some names and moves. 
 The book is, however, a little scattered; some details don't match up with what was said earlier, or kept consistent. When Karen is worried about her period, for instance, she seems to flop between thinking it's normal for girls to not have their period until seventeen, casually saying that probably only Stevie has it and then only for a few years (at nineteen) and saying she knew it was abnormal but that her parents had told her there was nothing to worry about. Considering excessive exercise is something that can delay a girl's period, Karen's parents and coach probably should've been worried about it a long time ago (she spends hours a day in the gym, to the point where she's there more during her waking hours than she is anywhere else). Yet when Jordan shows her the records his father has on her, all it says is that they should start giving her a calcium supplement, which they apparently never did because she doesn't say something like "Oh so that's why." And then she does finally get her period and it's never mentioned again. Cross was clearly going somewhere with it both as part of Karen's character and probably as what might be a common experience for young gymnasts, but there just wasn't enough there to make it worth it in the long run. The book also seems to flip-flop between whether it wants Stevie as an antagonist or not, but that might be more a mix between Karen's own thought processes and undecided characterization that wasn't quite resolved in edits. I realize that a good character has layers to them and they don't always react to everything the same way, but Stevie does seem inconsistent to me to the point where I wonder if Cross had several ideas for her during the process and couldn't decide in the end. 
 Still, it's a clever and sometime heartbreaking book, and I'd definitely recommend it. So happy reading!