author: amy bloom
completion date: 04/07/10
method: borrowed (mum)
i think that this book was meant to be an incredible love story. a story of love through time or maybe even the true missed connection. it seems to embrace the idea that although we may have many partners, there is only one person for us and no love will be the same as the love we feel for this person. this is something that i just can't believe. i believe that absence makes the heart grow fonder to a point. after a while, the heart can be forgetful and stop filling in the blanks.
i just didn't feel the love between these two kids. i feel like i missed the chemistry. or maybe they just didn't have it. i felt like they were just two teenage lovers who never completed their relationship so they always thought 'what if'. they never had any resolution or closure so they blamed every failed relationship on their unrequited love for each other.
and i have to say i was very confused by elizabeth's commitment to her old teacher who sexually abused her. at one point he compares himself to humbert humbert and it couldn't be more accurate. as she matures sexually and moves to other relationships, he seems to cling to the little girl she was. i don't understand why she would have any loyalty to him in his death, because he was her abuser. he uses every excuse in the book to make it 'ok' - he never refers to her as a child, she is a 'young woman'. he convinces himself he would love her as much as a grown woman, but you know it isn't true. she seems to have this guilty attachment to him, like its her fault he's dying.
i just never felt the connection here. lets just say i didn't feel the love
xo-ellebee
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