You could say it to her a million times but it wouldn't matter - she still blames herself. Over and over again, Amy is told it was an accident.
Even worse, she blames herself for her friend's death. She is hurting and thinks nobody in the whole world understands how it feels to lose a best friend. This is especially true for Amy, the main character in LOVE YOU HATE YOU MISS YOU. While I may believe that, it doesn't mean that everybody else believes that. I also believe that you can't change the past, only move on with the future. I believe wholeheartedly that accidents happen and that blame is a waste of time and doesn't fix the problem. Where does her new book fall on this continuum? It's dark, not disturbingly dark but still dark, because the main character's emotional pain is very apparent. Some of her books are fluffy and light, the perfect poolside read, while some of her other books take on darker undertones. I've said this before and I am going to say it again: Elizabeth Scott's writing is chameleon-like. Ages 12–up.Reviewed by coollibrarianchick for Amy's story stays mainly in guilt, despair and anger throughout, but shifts slightly toward hope as Amy moves through her grief. ) prose becomes layered with emotion, some of it achingly sad. The teenager's initial, severe alienation may account for the flat affect in the first half of the story, though as Amy reawakens to the possibility of moving on and life becoming meaningful again, Scott's ( Living Dead Girl Amy's letters to Julia sit between straight narrative chapters, and throughout Amy marks time by counting the days since Julia's death. The events leading up to Julia's death-which give Amy the impression that she killed her-unfold during Amy's post-rehab sessions with her therapist and her parents.
Amy feels lost without Julia: she has no real friends and believes her parents not only don't know her but don't want to. Readers meet 16-year-old Amy fresh out of rehab-a recovering alcoholic who is also trying to recover her will to live. Amy used to sleep around, party hard and have a wild time with her best friend Julia-until Julia dies in a car accident.
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