To me, Little Bird felt something like a love letter to grief and depression. It's so easy to get lost in the all consuming darkness that comes with those things, and Josie was just that - lost. Then enters seemingly sentient vines and a skeleton who can communicate with her telepathically and Josie doesn't know how to cope. Her interactions with Skelly, the skeleton, mimic the stages of grief and with these interactions Josie is forced to confront the reality of how she's not coping with things that have happened in her own life. In the end, the message is hopeful. Or at least, it was to me as someone who has suffered with depression and had people I love also suffer from it. This is a hard read. There were times it made me cry and want to put the book away because it made me feel things that were a little too much, but I kept reading and I am so grateful I did. Little Bird is a beautiful story that's a little weird - okay, maybe a lot weird - and very real in a way that will stick with you after you've read the last page.

 *I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*