Aimee

One of my favorite books I have read in a long time. The story is truly captivating and I could easily envision what aimee was going through. The way the story was written really pulls you in and makes you feel as though you are a part of the group. The story is told from aimee's point of view and it is interesting to follow along and see how her idea of what happened played out.

Aimee was an excellent book. Although it starts out very slow and with minimal information about the death of Aimee, it gives tons of information about the main character's conflicting emotions. The main character feels like through losing Aimee she has lost apart of herself which is why throughout the whole book she is never once referred to by name until at the very end. The question remains throughout most of the novel:What happened to Aimee, and whose fault was it? Miller's ending is truly heartfelt and worth reading the whole book to achieve. To keep your attention Miller casually throws in hints as to what has happened to Aimee by slowly unraveling the truth about Aimee's demise. Love is also thrown in though the main character's relationship with Chard. A great read if you are looking for something long, yet easy to read. It would make a great Lifetime movie.

I really loved this book. I couldn't put it down. Its a very suspensful novel, full of surprises. The main character is a girl who is accused of murdering her best friend. When you finally learn the truth, it isn't a letdown, like some novels. The ending will leave you satisfied. This book is a real pageturner, you are guaranteed to read it in a few days.

The book followed an excellent storyline that was sometimes complicated to keep up with. I think the writing was week but the message was still clear. I would read this book again.

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I must admit that I was a reader of darker stories when I was a teen. If it was tragic, brutal & gut-wrenching, then I was all over it. Aimee by Mary Beth Miller falls into that category with both hands & feet. There is no escaping the hard truth that this book discuses.Zoe is an exile. After moving to a new town, since there was no way she could stay in her old town after being acquitted of the murder of her best friend Aimee, Zoe is withdrawn, angry, & confused. Forced to see a therapist that she believes to be a moron, Zoe documents her existence in her new life while interjecting information about her former life. Her entries sometimes take on the form of rants against any and all adults & other times they are happy memories with her old friends.The culmination of her work is when Zoe comes face to face with the reality of what she could have done for Aimee. Is Zoe really responsible for what happened to Aimee? If not, then how does she handle the continuance of her youth?This was a hard book to really wrap my head around, at the time I read it. Mary Beth Miller does an eloquent & rawly fresh job of conveying one girl's turmoil over the loss of her friend & her struggle with her involvement. Zoe was a strong character who hid in her depths of anger. She had so many levels of anger that were all pointed at different targets & managed with varying levels of fervor.The world that Miller creates is one that was just really emerging & taking shape at the time it was written. The situations that the teens participated in throughout the novel weren't the commonplace situations for teens of the time. Nowadays it's a different story, but I think it still has merit. This book reminds me of some of Sarah Dessen's earlier novels or even Elizabeth Scott's darker novels.To be certain, this is a book that should be at least considered.

This is a poignant book that hits home on the theme of friendship and knowing what is right and wrong when you aren't sure which adults you can trust. Once Zoe is accused of assisting in her friend's suicide, she is isolated from her friends. Anyone who has experienced high school knows how essential your friends are to your mental health. Zoe is angry, adrift, trying to cope with the loss of her friend, and has no one save for an unhelpful therapist to discuss this with. She waits to describe the night of her friend's suicide until the climax of the novel, and the moment is eye-opening.The parents in this book were very realistic. They were unhelpful to the teens, and they were mistrustful of their childrens' stories, based on their past behavior. As an adult, I can relate to the parents' decisions regarding their children, but as a post-teenager, I relate more to how crushing the adults' actions were to the teens.In discussing this book with others and reading the other reviews, it is clear to me that adults have trouble "getting" this book, while teenagers immediately identify. As someone not too long out of high school, this book really hit home for me. It also resonated with my 16-year-old sister. Each of us started the book during the day and then had to stay up the entire night because we were so drawn into the story. I finished it at 2:30 AM and I was very emotionally stirred. So I caution you, don't start this book right at bedtime!