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Amelia Unabridged
by Ashley Schumacher
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I got an ARC of this book.
Welcome to the middle of the blog tour!
I was emailed by the publisher to check out this book. At first I was wary, I was offered a copy when I kept getting requests to read books that were so unappealing. I was worried this was just another book that glorified jealousy or was way out of my interest. I read a few lines of the description, maybe three. I saw the cover. Then decided that this at least looked like a book I could read most of.
Then I started the book. I read half of it before I looked up. I was hooked. This was an emotionally powerful book. It was complicated, it was complex, it was glorious. I didn’t read far enough in the description for the death or the possible love to exist, so they were surprising little details.
The book told the story of Amelia trying to survive in her new normal. She would have little flashes of memories of Jenna. She would try to do what she could do to survive, which she was barely doing since even reading wasn’t something she could handle any more. The raw emotion that I felt from her and the dead inside feelings at time were so well done. This book is very character driven and I fell in love with every character. All of the characters had depth. They weren’t just their role in the story, but also feelings and motivations that made sense. Think Nina LaCour level emotions, but the epilogue made me tear up which just made me mad.
That epilogue DESTROYED me. There were some details that just did way too much emotional destruction for me to say anything nice about it (outside of I was blown away by it and it was such a perfect ending for the book).
I needed all the details of everything. I want to read the Orman stories so badly now and I am not even a fan of classic fantasy. I need to know how the boys became friends. I need to know everything about Val. Who is the guy in the café? I NEED TO KNOW. I know there is a reason I can’t know, because this story is already pretty near perfect in scope. No detail was frivolous. Nothing was out of place. It flowed smoothly. I may want more, but in the way that I loved the story and didn’t want it to end, instead of I was left wanting.
I could go on all day about how much I enjoyed this book. How I stretched out the last 25% over a few days, just so I didn’t have to let the characters go yet. How there were times I snorted at the ridiculous inside jokes. Everything sucks, except this book.
I got an ARC of this book.
Welcome to the middle of the blog tour!
I was emailed by the publisher to check out this book. At first I was wary, I was offered a copy when I kept getting requests to read books that were so unappealing. I was worried this was just another book that glorified jealousy or was way out of my interest. I read a few lines of the description, maybe three. I saw the cover. Then decided that this at least looked like a book I could read most of.
Then I started the book. I read half of it before I looked up. I was hooked. This was an emotionally powerful book. It was complicated, it was complex, it was glorious. I didn’t read far enough in the description for the death or the possible love to exist, so they were surprising little details.
The book told the story of Amelia trying to survive in her new normal. She would have little flashes of memories of Jenna. She would try to do what she could do to survive, which she was barely doing since even reading wasn’t something she could handle any more. The raw emotion that I felt from her and the dead inside feelings at time were so well done. This book is very character driven and I fell in love with every character. All of the characters had depth. They weren’t just their role in the story, but also feelings and motivations that made sense. Think Nina LaCour level emotions, but the epilogue made me tear up which just made me mad.
That epilogue DESTROYED me. There were some details that just did way too much emotional destruction for me to say anything nice about it (outside of I was blown away by it and it was such a perfect ending for the book).
I needed all the details of everything. I want to read the Orman stories so badly now and I am not even a fan of classic fantasy. I need to know how the boys became friends. I need to know everything about Val. Who is the guy in the café? I NEED TO KNOW. I know there is a reason I can’t know, because this story is already pretty near perfect in scope. No detail was frivolous. Nothing was out of place. It flowed smoothly. I may want more, but in the way that I loved the story and didn’t want it to end, instead of I was left wanting.
I could go on all day about how much I enjoyed this book. How I stretched out the last 25% over a few days, just so I didn’t have to let the characters go yet. How there were times I snorted at the ridiculous inside jokes. Everything sucks, except this book.