Book Review: I heart you, You haunt me by Lisa Schroeder

Title: I heart you, You haunt me

Author: Lisa Schroeder

Genre: Young Adult

Pages:  227

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Year Published: 2008

First Line: “I’ve never been to a funeral until today.”

“Girl meets boy.

Girl loses boy.

Girl gets boy back…

                                …sort of.

Ava can’t see or touch him,

Unless she’s dreaming.

She can’t hear his voice except for the faint whispers I her mind.

Most would think she’s crazy, but she know 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 Rating: 4/5

I never thought I would enjoy a book in poetry stance so much. It makes the story more dramatic. I love that time seems to be moving slower (in a good way) I feel like I got to know Ava. And that’s something that makes me truly happy. I feel that real authors are able to get across just who there characters are and we as readers can see them in our mind.

I also think that the themes in this novel were impressive. I think that as young adults death is something really hard to deal with. Not only if we’re directly affected but also if we know a friend who is going through the grieving process. We try to follow social norms but it is an awkward topic. I’d say more awkward than the sex talk.

Finally the suspense in this book wasn’t all that great, and for me that’s where it lost it’s one star. All an all a great weekend read.

THANK YOU LISA SCHROEDER FOR SHOWING GRIEVING IN IT’S FULL FORM!

Thanks for reading,

Love,

Sidny xoxo

Spoiler: I heart you, You haunt me by Lisa Schroeder

I really have started to enjoy novels that use a poetry based form for writing. They are a quick, hard hitting read and perfect for this weekend. I think that this book tackles the idea of grieving more than supernatural afterlives, which I didn’t expect, but it was important that they talked about it as mentioned above. I did like that they used a ghost but it wasn’t just about ghosts. Sometimes that just too much for me to handle especially since the last book I read had a ghost concept in it as well. I guess the next most important thing to talk about is…

♥Characters♥

♥Ava: From the start as a reader we feel sorry for Ava. She had her first love and she didn’t just break up with him, he died. And at the tender age of 15 dealing with love in itself is hard never mind the death of someone you love. I think that she didn’t know how to deal with something so serious and so she found comfort in Jackson’s ghost. I was happy to see her come out of her shell at the end and let go. After all it wasn’t her fault.

♥Jackson: So we never really meet him except in ghost form and though it seems that he is really is there, who can be certain. I think he must have really loved Ava and maybe they could have made it work if it hadn’t been for the accident. I also don’t think that he ever blamed her for daring him. I think he blamed himself for going along with it even thought it was so dangerous. If anything that’s certainly why he stuck around so long.

♥Cali: She seems like a sweet friend and she tries her best to help Ava through this tough time, but like most teenagers she just doesn’t quite know how.

♥Lyric: Awesome name, first off! And secondly I think that he really did like Ava, but first off she wasn’t ready to try again with someone so soon and secondly she made the choice that her friendship with Cali was more important. Thank goodness. Hopefully he finds someone.

♥Moment to Remember♥

♥Pg. 178

“’Was it hard?’ I ask. ‘Letting go?’

‘Not as hard as holding on to something that wasn’t real.’

I gulp ‘Can I ask how you did it?’

‘I just decided, Ava. That’s all. I just decided.’”

♥Last Line: “I am hopeful.”

Thanks for reading,

Love,

Sidny xoxo