This book keeps you reading
By Molly Drummond / Spinebreakers Crew
Love, Aubrey was interesting. It was set in America, around this girl called, well, Aubrey, whose mum had just left her to live by herself. This would be fine except she’s eleven. I was starting to get déjà vu from Lock and Key when I was relieved to find her grandma turned up right at the start.
Anyway, you realise very quickly that something awful has happened to Aubrey’s family, not least because she keeps on having flashbacks about her little sister, Savannah. You get the impression that this sister has died, but you don’t realise until later that not only Savannah, but also their dad died in this horrid car crash not long ago.
For most of the book, Aubrey’s mum is missing and Aubrey lives with her grandma, who she only really sees at Christmas and things, so the move is pretty hard on our main character. Although right next door an eleven year-old girl called Bridget has just moved in, so all is not lost. Obviously, the two become friends even though Aubrey understandably finds it hard to talk about what had happened.
When Aubrey’s mum is finally found, she sees a doctor and is helped to recover, living for a short while at the grandma’s house before moving back to her own. It isn’t long before she asks Aubrey to come and live with her again, and this is where things start to get awkward. Aubrey has been with her grandma for at least a couple of months, has gained a best friend and a school where people don’t avoid her like the plague. She likes living there now, and her mother has now got a job where they used to live. Aubrey has an incredibly difficult decision to make and neither side are doing anything to make it easier. Plus, she’s just started getting over her family’s tragedy and this is one thing she doesn’t need. This book keeps you reading because it is only at the very end of the book you find out which choice she has made.