tayat99 's review for:

Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

5.0

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I haven’t cried this much in awhile, holy shit. I swear I was crying on the first chapter and I was sobbing by the last three. I feel like the book hit home for me. It doesn’t hit you over the head by being too serious- it’s perfectly silly and a normal meet-cute at times too- but at the same time it’s a great story about sinking in grief, coming to terms with it, and struggling with who you’ve become from the “before” to the “after”. Grief and struggling to figure out who you want to be are so raw, and Schumacher writes it perfectly into a girl (who I could totally see as myself) and a boy that found each other just when they needed to. I love found family stories and this is another one that’ll pull at your heartstrings. The epilogue was, well mean is what I thought at first, but perfect in that it kept the character of the story while tying it up with realness.