I was “eavesdropping” on Twitter when Ashley was talking about how awesome Lisa Schroeder is. So I have to give credit to Ashley from Books from Bleh to Basically Amazing. 'If tears could bring him back, there'd be enough to bring him back a hundred times.' I don't need you sitting around here like that.' If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. I also wanted more character development as I closed the novel, I felt like I really didn't know any of them.ĭespite these complaints, I enjoyed I Heart You, You Haunt Me, and am glad that I ordered all of Lisa Schroeder's other novels in verse from my library. It felt emotionally abusive and wasn't addressed as much as I would have liked. The only was he can express displeasure is by trashing her room and slamming doors, usually to make her feel guilty for leaving the house. The sticky part for me was the unhealthy feeling of Ava and Jackson's relationship. I found it highly readable (and read it in about an hour) and will enjoy recommending it, but it doesn't stand up to the best novels in verse that I have explored lately. While this could be the perfect book for some of my students, I didn't adore it completely. Everyone else is concerned about her and tries to get her to see that maybe her self-imposed isolation is no life at all. Finally, Ava feels alive again and delights in spending time alone and dreaming of her love. Mourning in her home, she begins to feel cold air and see flashes of Jackson in the mirror. The loss of people we once felt close to can, in turn, feel just as incidental and contingent.Lisa Schroeder's I Heart You, You Haunt Me has many appealing aspects-the romance, the great cover, the supernatural, the easy writing style-that I can confidently say it is a book that will convert reluctant readers.Īt fifteen, Ava's boyfriend Jackson has died and she feels responsible for his death. This raises lots of questions, not least how much luck is involved when we encounter someone we can connect with. In a broken friendship, each party ultimately has access only to a single, lingering perspective. The starting points are not obvious, and the endings can seem impossible to untangle. The trajectories of friendships, unlike those of familial bonds, tend to be difficult to trace. There has recently been a thirst for stories about friendships, evidenced not only by Ferrante fever but also the viral popularity of Jennifer Senior’s “ It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart” in the Atlantic and the acclaim that greeted Hua Hsu’s memoir, “ Stay True.” Implicit in the longing for such narratives is a desire to understand why, or how, certain people come into and out of our lives over time.

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