Love You, Hate You, Miss You

Written by: Elizabeth Scott

This book is very inspirational. It makes you realize that all teenagers have reasoning behind what they do and why they do it.

In this book there are two teenage girls, Amy and Julia. They become best friends when they are younger and form a strong bond between them as they get older.
Amy picks up a bad drinking habit. She feels that her parents don’t love her and don’t want her to be around. Julia is very into drugs and smoking pot. She feels like her mom is to overbearing and feels like she needs to do drugs and drink to get away from it.

When I was reading this book it made me realize that being 15 or 16 isn’t as easy as they make it out to be. It shows that high school is very judgmental and that it isn’t easy to drop a friend and then instantly have more. You have to learn how to survive; and in Amy and Julia’s case, they learned to survive by doing drugs, drinking and partying. There parties were all about hooking up, getting high, and being trashed. But one night Amy met a boy named Patrick, and that one almost “hook up” ended up changing everything for her later in. When these two teenage girls thought that partying was the way to live, it all came crashing down when Amy persuaded Julia to leave a party after she had just seen her so called “boyfriend” with another girl. That night changed Amy’s life. She had lost Julia for good that night.

Soon enough Amy had to face the world. It was a hard experience for her. But it was something she was going to have to take on, on her own. She felt alone, scared, ashamed and did nothing but blame herself.

This book is very moving. It gives you a strong understanding of what most high school teens go through. I recommend this book to teenagers and young adults. It opens your eyes to a whole new meaning of “teenage” partying. There are 276 pages but yet it still leaves you wanting more.
Reviewed by; TL