Name: Love Me, Love Me Not
ISBN: 9781250137838

SM Koz

High school senior Hailey has to choose whether to risk her placement with a great family to pursue a relationship with her foster brother.

A Novel

Love Me, Love Me Not

Candyce Kirk

Hailey hasn't had the easiest life. Her mother doesn't treat her right and she's been in and out of the foster care system. Hailey's boyfriend Chase is rather controlling, but she think she needs him, because he's the only one who ever really showed her any attention and what she thinks is love. When things get bad at home, it's back off to a foster home. From what we read, Chase ruins two of those homes for her. Then she meets the Campbells. I loved how Hailey's life changed once this happened. These people actually really wanted her to have a good life and feel loved. Love Me, Love Me not was also very realistic though. How often foster homes fall through, group homes that don't always work out, being left to defend yourself once you turn 18. The foster care system is a wonderful thing when it works the way it's supposed to. Reading this book was a good thing. Not many books I have read so far talk about the foster kids and what they go through. How after everything they go through they have a hard time trusting anyone again. The only thing that kind of bugged me I guess, was the fact that the possible relationship between Hailey and Brad kind of took over the book at a certain point. Of course, this is something that happens, but I think it would've fit the book better if it wasn't so present. The relationship getting this much attention kind of interrupted I think the buildup to the events near the end of the book. While I was able to figure out pretty fast the way everything was going, I would've liked to have seen more of that. Beside that, this was an interesting read and it nice to read how a character who has never really been loved finds it in a healthy way in many different places. Books about fostercare are really important. I don't know if a lot of people, especially teenagers, realize what someone's life is like in the system.

Love Me, Love Me Not A Novel

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