I Heart you,You Haunt me
By Lisa Schroeder
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Pub. Date: January 2008 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Format: Paperback, 240 pages Age Range: Young Adult Source: Bought
Synopsis: Ava can't see him or touch him, unless she's dreaming. She can't hear hisvoice, except for the faint whispers in her mind. Most would think she'scrazy, but she knows he's here.
Jackson. The boy Ava thought she'd spend the rest of her life with. He's back from the dead, as proof that love truly knows no bounds.
My Thoughts - I Heart you, you Haunt me, is written in verse, something i was completely unaware of until i opened the very first page. I will admit i was apprehensive at first since i am used to my pages filled with detailed writing and also due to not encountering such a book before. However as i continued to read i found the writing style in fact fresh and a pleasant change. The story follows a girl called Ava who happens to be at her boyfriends funeral. Things are quite vague at first, all you know is that she loved her boyfriend dearly, he seemed like the "real deal" and she is struggling to cope without him.
Soon enough she has started to isolate herself from close friends and family and is ignoring her ex boyfriend advances. She is in so much pain, and is more like a shell than anything else. Through this period of grief the last thing she expected was for Jackson to return, but .. in the form of a ghost. At first she is over the moon and sheds tears of happiness, she wants to ask for forgiveness and tell him how sorry she is.There are a lot of touching moments and you empathize with both Jackson and Ava. you feel their frustration because they truly want to be together. Yet when she comes to terms with reality she starts to realise that she can't live in this limbo waiting for Jackson to come back when he is dead, a ghost can't offer a solid body, he can't return her Jackson. She then has to decide will she forgive herself and move on and figure out what Jackson is trying to tell her. Or will she accept this never ending limbo and remain in this shell. The choice is hers, but that doesn't mean that Jackson can't help her along the way.
I have been waiting for this book for so long that it was a relief more than anything else to finally hold it in my hands, the first thing i noticed although it's completely irrelevant was how soft the cover was literally like velvet!, there was definitely a lot of Oooohing and Aaahing! I was amazed by the authors ability to give us so much through such a small amount of detail, writing in verse can either in my opinion go completely wrong or be the most rewarding experience for an author and its reader, in this case i have to say the author did a fantastic job, it made me feel that all the waiting was worth it and even gave me a little lesson to take with me, "Sometimes its okay to let go"
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