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Love You Hate You Miss You

By: Elizabeth Scott
Narrated by: Tracy Pfau
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It's been 75 days. Amy's sick of her parents suddenly taking an interest in her. And she's really sick of people asking her about Julia. Julia's gone now, and she doesn't want to talk about it. They wouldn't get it, anyway. They wouldn't understand what it feels like to have your best friend ripped away from you. They wouldn't understand what it feels like to know it's your fault.

Amy's shrink thinks it would help to start a diary. Instead, Amy starts writing letters to Julia. But as she writes letter after letter, she begins to realize that the past wasn't as perfect as she thought it was - and the present deserves a chance too.

©2009 Elizabeth Spencer (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers Difficult Situations Family & Relationships Friendship Literature & Fiction

Editorial reviews

The Steadfast told as an angst-fueled confession, with interruptions by a series of letters written by Amy, a young woman just getting out of teen rehab to her friend Julia, whose death she can't stop blaming on herself. An exploration of ache, loss, self-destruction, and introspection, this audiobook will move listeners with its narrator's raw honesty in the face of loneliness and alcohol abuse. Tracy Pfau performs with realism relating to the sarcasm and of its young narrator without falling into the clichés of young-adult speech.

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"A satisfying story of an engaging heroine successfully naming and confronting her demons." (Booklist )
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Amy gets out of rehab 75 days after she killed her best friend Julia. Now instead of being detached, her parents are super interested in everything she does, but Amy isn't buying their faux concern. Her therapist clicks her pen annoyingly and even worse, she recommended Amy for all honors courses instead of the slacker classes she's always taken. Then there are the whispers from the other kids, former friends and some new friends who are trying to befriend her. But, Amy pushes everyone away. Because she murdered her best friend in a car accident. Even though she wasn't driving.

LOVE YOU, HATE YOU, MISS YOU grabbed me from the first page. In journal entries, Amy writes letters to Julia, other chapters are her first person narration. Elizabeth Scott gave Amy a unique, authentic voice, depressed, sarcastic and grieving. Amy was often hard to like but easy to sympathize with, as she shut people out, pushed them away and was downright rude. She had horrible communication skills. Her character is a common archetype in contemporary young adult fiction, and I thought her snail-paced turnaround could have been quicker and more pronounced in stages. The minor characters weren't as fleshed out or unique, nobody transcended stereotypes.

I thoroughly enjoyed Amy's journey and this novel and recommend contemporary YA fans who enjoy books about friends, grief, depression, substance abuse or family.

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