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Gradually, we learn about Amy and about Julia. Julia is gone, she knows, because of her. She hates her therapist, her parents and the kids at school, but mostly she hates herself. She misses her friend with an aching, searing emptiness that she is certain nothing will ever fill or change. She’s insecure, battling temptation to fall back into old habits and, above all, lonely. This is not a fairy tale world.Īs Amy tries to go back to living a life that is irrevocably changed after an incident several months in the past, we come to know her. She narrates the book in the first person and through a series of short letters to her friend Julia. Amy is a high school junior, tall and with the kind of red hair that makes her stand out against her will. Avoiding this large, difficult to escape pitfall is the greatest strength of Love You Hate You Miss You.Īuthor Elizabeth Scott presents to us the story of Amy. I understand the desire of authors to avoid talking down to their audience, but in the process I think they sometimes lose credibility with the same kids by sounding too much like an adult telling kids how they should feel. A 14-year-old too often sounds more like my friends than my daughter. One of the issues I frequently see in Young Adult fiction is that the characters think, speak and act too much like adults.
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