Love You Hate You Miss You is indeed a raw, heartbreaking and poignant read. Is Amy strong enough to get through this trial and tribulation without worrying of losing her own self? So she continues to plug along, trying to bare her parent’s sudden change of behaviour – from one who is indifferent to one who cares too much, struggle through a hard time at school and at the same time fighting the devils that raging inside her head. But she has to live as that is the only way she could penalize herself for what really happened that night. Fresh out of Pinewood – a treatment centre – Amy feels like she has been stripped naked without the presence of Julia. My Review: Seventy-five days have past since the day Amy saw Julia died, since the last day Amy knew how to live, since the first day Amy began punishing herself for the death of her best friend.
Today, I truly believe each day is a precious gift…. I can see it now: Dear Diary, As I’m set adrift on this crazy sea called “life,” I like to think of an inspirational poem I heard not long ago, one that made me weep because of its beauty. Get this, I’m supposed to be starting a journal about “my journey.” Please. Amy's story stays mainly in guilt, despair and anger throughout, but shifts slightly toward hope as Amy moves through her grief. ) prose becomes layered with emotion, some of it achingly sad. The teenager's initial, severe alienation may account for the flat affect in the first half of the story, though as Amy reawakens to the possibility of moving on and life becoming meaningful again, Scott's ( Living Dead Girl Amy's letters to Julia sit between straight narrative chapters, and throughout Amy marks time by counting the days since Julia's death. The events leading up to Julia's death-which give Amy the impression that she killed her-unfold during Amy's post-rehab sessions with her therapist and her parents. Amy feels lost without Julia: she has no real friends and believes her parents not only don't know her but don't want to. Readers meet 16-year-old Amy fresh out of rehab-a recovering alcoholic who is also trying to recover her will to live. Amy used to sleep around, party hard and have a wild time with her best friend Julia-until Julia dies in a car accident.
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