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Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher
5.0

This book deserves more than five stars. I don't usually read realistic fiction, but this was an amazing book. Very rarely do I read a book that actually makes me feel something real for and along with the characters, but I found that in this.

Amelia Griffin has been best friends with Jenna Wilkinson since freshman year, and the book that brought them together. That book was the Orman Chronicles, written by N.E. Endsley, a boy barely older than Amelia and Jenna. After the girls graduate high school, they attend a books festival where Endsley is scheduled to speak, but when he cancels and Jenna meets him without Amelia, they fight the most they ever have. When Jenna leaves for vacation a couple of days later and dies in a car accident, Amelia's world is shattered. Just days after, a delivery arrives for Amelia: an incredibly rare edition of the first book in the Orman Chronicles. Acting on the belief that Jenna somehow sent it, Amelia visits its source, an amazing bookstore in the lakeside town of Lochbrook, Michigan. There, she meets N.E. Endsley himself, AKA Nolan Endsley, and the two help each other with their grief and loss, falling in love in the process.

Amelia Unabridged is a book about loss, love, friendship, and finding yourself.