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She Loves You, She Loves You Not...

Tekijä: Julie Anne Peters

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Seventeen-year-old Alyssa thought she knew who she was. She had her family and her best friends and, most important, she had Sarah. Sarah, her girlfriend, with whom she dreamed with about the day they could move far away and live out and proud and accepted for themselves, instead of having to hide their relationship.

Alyssa never thought she would have to make that move by herself, but disowned by her father and cut off from everyone she loves, she is forced to move hundreds of miles away to live with Carly, the biological mother she barely knows, in a town where everyone immediately dismisses her as "Carly's girl." As Alyssa struggles to forget her past and come to terms with her future, will she be able to build a new life for herself and believe in love again? Or will she be forced to relive the mistakes that have cost her everything and everyone she cared about?

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters has written a compelling novel about coming out, finding love, and discovering your place in the world. Alyssa's story will speak to anyone who has known the joy and pain of first love and the struggle to start over again.

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I pick a daisy out of the bowl and hold it to my nose, closing my eyes, and the bitter odor reminds me of Sarah and home and… everything.

I pluck a petal

She Loves You

I drop it in the bowl and pluck another

She Loves You Not

Sarah, Ben, and her dad are the antagonists. While Alyssa, Finn, Paulie, Carly, and her step mom are the protagonists. Alyssa lived in Virginia Beach. She was a happy, nice, and smart girl, in her dad eyes she was the perfect daughter. Alyssa dad was the most nicest and kindest man in the world to her there were only two things he hated the most. first was Alyssa bio mom he called her many slurs, he called her a “dirty dancer”, he was also homophobic. He hated gay people and made sure everyone knew it.

Surprisingly that is why Alyssa never came out as a lesbian to him. When she started dating Alyssa, she had to come up creative ways to stop her dad from suspecting anything, even so far as to ask her gay freind Ben to pretend they were dating. But somehow he still found out, he called Alyssa many slurs and told her that she wasn't his daughter. Sarah broke things off with her the next day.

Alyssa's dad sent her to go live with her biological mother, there she found out more about her mom Carly about why she left, what she did when she was gone, and how everything got destroyed. But she also met Finn. Soon after Alyssa started to like Finn but Finn didn't care she only wanted one thing and when she got it she left Alyssa by herself. But she did have one person there to help her and that was her little brother Paulie. Paulie had helped her throughout everything and when she went away he still tried to communicate with her. I dont like how she treated Paulie but toward the end of the book shes sees him in a different light.

I would recommend this book because it shows the struggle of a young teenage girl, lying to her dad, having to keep so many secrets, going to a new place that you don't even know and living with someone that you hated your whole life. I like how the character goes through so many changes not just the main character but also the side characters go through so much character development. Some people wouldn`t like this book because it crosses so many sensitive aspects like sexualiy, identity, suicide, death, and abandoment. I think that those aspects makes the book more realistic being suck in place you dont know becasue your sexuality, the death of people, and being abandoned by people you love, and not having anyone to talk to about problems would most likey bring people to suicide. So yes it does talk about sensitive aspects but I think that is what makes it a good book. So yes I would most definitely recommend this book to people who are into this sort of topics. The author Julie Anne Peters did a great job.
  maria1120 | May 24, 2022 |
Julie Anne Peters is a great author and tells lesbian coming-of-age stories like no other author. However, this wasn't my favorite book. Keeping You A Secret was a heart-wrenching teen lesbian novel about being disowned by your parents. She Loves You, She Loves You Not has more agonizing over a failed realationship than the parental situation, which has rocked Alyssa's world. To suddenly be living with a parent she doesn't know, in a new town, and feeling completely alone is monumental. But Alyssa's primary concerns seem to be how things ended with her ex and the new girl who sets off Alyssa's gaydar in a big way.

At first, Alyssa seems like a very strong and independent character who is intent on making a name for herself in her new town and making a positive impression on people. She realizes her mother has a particular reputation and Alyssa tries to distance herself from that reputation and any comparision with her mother. This endears the reader to Alyssa, but that feeling didn't stay with me throughout the book.

After half a book of hearing Alyssa's thoughts about swearing off girls, she decides maybe she should pursue Finn. Alyssa is the protagonist and we want to take her side over Sarah in the breakup, but then we learn about some creepy things that Alyssa has done and she seems a bit intense and obsessed. Likewise, we want to take her side on her relationship with her mother, but she doesn't even try to connect with her mother, who reaches out at times. We also want to enjoy the budding relationship between Alyssa and Finn, but Alyssa makes so many stupid decisions that is is hard to root for her. She is constantly disobeying authority figures, but not in a charming way, rather in a really self-destructive and dangerous way. Most notably, several times she drives in very dangerous situations that adults wouldn't even drive in, even though the character is terrified of driving and is a horrible and inexperienced driver. She seems to create her own drama, and I am repulsed by people like that, who act all "woe is me," but can't get out of their own way. Generally their life tends to suck because of all the poor decisions they are making. Alyssa is like this. Her increasingly obsessive nature was offputting to me, so by the end of the book I didn't really like her anymore.

I kept thinking the book would deliver more information, but it fell a little short. It would probably make a good series as there are a lot of loose threads and characters who we never learn the full story about. You only get a shady outline of Carly's past. We don't really learn that much about either Sarah or Finn. We only have two interactions with Alyssa's father. The townspeople are the most interesting characters to me, though. I want to know more about Arlo, and Dutch, and Timber Toes. ( )
  originalslicey | Oct 30, 2019 |
Alyssa is a 17-year-old girl who, like most girls her age, is trying to find her place in the world. She seems to be doing well. Getting good grades, having friends, pleasing her parents, it seems like Alyssa has the perfect life. Unfortunately she has a secret, and that secret is about to blow up in her face. She Loves You, She Loves You Not was a truly realistic and beautiful read for me. I'll do my best to explain to you what made it so amazing.

First of all, the characters in this book are utterly fantastic. From Alyssa's homophobic father, to her adorably understanding younger brother, each one of them has a unique personality that sets them apart. I thought it was interesting that the family Julie Anne Peters builds for Alyssa is so real. I've read many a book where characters are out and proud, with no problems. Although I'd love to believe that is true for most children, I know it's not. Alyssa's family is composed of a more realistic combination of parents. Her father simply cannot know she is a lesbian, because that is unacceptable, where her stepmother and brother are much more understanding. The secret relationship between Sarah and Alyssa made perfect sense to me, and even as it neared impending doom, I knew it had to be that way.

However, what struck me most about this book, and kept me reading on well into the evening until I finished it, was the kinship that I felt with Alyssa. It doesn't matter who you are, or what your sexual preferences may be, anyone who has loved and lost can understand what she is going through. For that matter, anyone who has ever been deeply wounded can relate as well. What is really refreshing though is that Alyssa doesn't dwell on the past. Instead, she uses those memories as a cleanser, to try to close that chapter of her life and start over again. Throughout the book Alyssa is coming to terms with the fact that her life isn't what she thought it once was, and she's going to need to build a new one for herself. It is that raw honesty, the broken girl within, that made me fall for She Loves You, She Loves You Not.

In terms of story line, this book is pretty equal to most other coming of age stories. As Alyssa navigates her new life, away from her family and friends, she struggles and learns. There is the new love interest who comes on the scene, that helps her break out of the shell she has built for herself. Then there is Carly, who is Alyssa's biggest hurdle yet. Not knowing your mother, and then being compared to her by people you barely know, isn't easy. She learns to forge a name for herself, learns to be strong, and most of all learns that it is completely okay to be herself. Although this type of story has been done before, I'll definitely say that Peters hit the nail on the head with the people who surround Alyssa. We all have hurdles to jump, why shouldn't she?

Despite the fact that this wasn't a book that had the "wow" factor for me, I did really enjoy reading it. As I mentioned above, the characters are beautifully written and I dare any reader coming in not to see some part of themselves in Alyssa. She's a multi-faceted character who the reader gets to watch grow into her own. It's a lovely experience, and I'm glad I was along for the ride. Overall I'd give this book a strong recommendation! If you are a lover of contemporary fiction, of coming of age stories, or even just appreciate a good solid story line, this is one for you.
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  roses7184 | Feb 5, 2019 |
I’m just going to start off by saying that I absolutely love Julie Anne Peters. She is probably my favorite author. I have loved everything I’ve read by her and had extremely high expectations going into this and I was not let down.

Alyssa has to go live with her biological mother that she barely knows, and she’s not very happy about it. She gets a job, meets someone, it’s not really anything new but I still loved it.

Just like every other time I read a book by Julie Anne Peters, I can’t stop talking about it but can’t seem to write a review that does the book justice.

If you haven’t read this book or any of Julie Anne Peters books, please do so. They are all really good. ( )
  TheTreeReader | Dec 28, 2017 |
I originally reviewed this book on my blog - The Cosy Dragon. For more recent reviews by me, please hop over there.

Alyssa has just moved back in with her birth mother. Abandoned by her father, but still keeping in touch with her half-brother and step-mother, she tries to make do in the back of beyond. She's falling for Finn, but will she be able to hold down a job or will she just repeat the mistakes of the past.

The plotline of this novel is relatively complex, because everything is revealed slowly. Too much of a synopsis would ruin the story. So go on, just go read it. I've included mainly my criticisms in this review. Really, the story is compelling, Alyssa is convincing, what more can I say?

This novel is another breathtaking fiction by Peters that fits in perfectly with her other books. I find it amazing how Peters can get inside the head of her protagonist even as an older writer. This novel is slightly longer than the nine others I own, and I did stay up past my bed time to finish reading it!

I found much of the text to be heartrending, and it left me on the edge of my seat, desperately reading on to find out what was going to happen next. I have to say it left me feeling somewhat unsettled, because I connected with Alyssa so much.

The flashbacks are very interesting, because they are written in 2nd person (you said, she said). It distances Alyssa from her memories, and initially confused me as to what they were about. They add depth to her character though, and I got used to them as the novel progressed.

The only other part of the novel that stood out to me as not really fitting in were the circumstances surrounding Jason. I also did notice an apparent typo on one of the pages, which I didn't note down at the time, but will likely notice again on a second read.

It is a little Americanised by the geography that Alyssa encounters, and I certainly struggled with where things were. I ended up treating it as I would a fantasy novel, and just remembering things by where they were via driving/walking distance rather than their actual location. Another thing that reminded me of this was the fact that Alyssa can drive even though she is only 17. This gives her freedom that Australian teens don't have (and given the problems Alyssa has with it, it's probably a good thing!).

There is a set of discussion questions at the back - I'm curious to know whether Peters writes these herself, or they are something the publisher came up with. Nevertheless, it's worth looking at them, as it can spark some interesting ideas. I'd love it if these books were taught as fiction in highschools, but while homophobia still exists, it's an unlikely dream.

I'd recommend this book for ANY teenager, not just queer identifying ones. Everyone should be able to relate to the heartbreak and feelings of betrayal that Alyssa suffers. Queer teens will particularly enjoy the book. ( )
  Rosemarie.Herbert | Feb 26, 2013 |
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Seventeen-year-old Alyssa thought she knew who she was. She had her family and her best friends and, most important, she had Sarah. Sarah, her girlfriend, with whom she dreamed with about the day they could move far away and live out and proud and accepted for themselves, instead of having to hide their relationship.

Alyssa never thought she would have to make that move by herself, but disowned by her father and cut off from everyone she loves, she is forced to move hundreds of miles away to live with Carly, the biological mother she barely knows, in a town where everyone immediately dismisses her as "Carly's girl." As Alyssa struggles to forget her past and come to terms with her future, will she be able to build a new life for herself and believe in love again? Or will she be forced to relive the mistakes that have cost her everything and everyone she cared about?

National Book Award finalist Julie Anne Peters has written a compelling novel about coming out, finding love, and discovering your place in the world. Alyssa's story will speak to anyone who has known the joy and pain of first love and the struggle to start over again.

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