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Amelia Unabridged
by Ashley Schumacher
Early on in this book, there's the death of a friend who's like a sister to the protagonist, and it's to author Ashley Schumacher's credit that she's able to make readers feel that loss so sharply when we haven't known either character for long. Unfortunately, however, the story that unfolds after that point really tries my patience and credulity, as the heroine meets and falls instantly in love with her favorite author. (He's a teen just one year older than herself, so there's not a weird age difference, but it still seems as though the power differentials and tensions inherent to that collision of fandom with a budding relationship are left totally unexamined, to my intense discomfort.) Simply put, I've had a hard time investing in this romance, especially given the writer's tendency to hit the same metaphors over and over again, like the feeling of a line drawing the two souls together or the imagined vision of whales swimming through the sky during moments of surging emotion.
I remain struck by the novel's treatment of grief, and I think there's a version of the overall plot buried somewhere in here that I could have enjoyed, but I regret to say that I've been largely unmoved by the majority of the actual text.
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I remain struck by the novel's treatment of grief, and I think there's a version of the overall plot buried somewhere in here that I could have enjoyed, but I regret to say that I've been largely unmoved by the majority of the actual text.
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