The novel is about two teenagers, Chris Harte and Emily Gold, who have known each other their whole life. Considering their closeness, it was no surprise when their friendship turned into romance. One night, their families were awoken with calls from the hospital. Emily was dead from a gunshot wound to the head and Chris was injured. He became a suspect and was put into jail when his family was celebrating his 18th birthday. I pity him. But then he told the truth and his awesome lawyer, Jordan McAfee said some stuffs that convinced the jury, he was found not guilty of a first degree murder.
The ending is not somewhat like in fairytale stories, but it didn't suck either. I pity Chris, a lot. He's like the victim of circumstances, much like Erik in Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Opera. When Emily confided to him about committing suicide, there wasn't really anything he could do. He loved her too much to tell anyone else about it and decided to confront the problem and tried to save her himself, which required a lot of willpower and determination. He couldn't bring himself to kill her too. When she sat crying and pleading to Chris to kill her because she couldn't kill herself, he cried and couldn't pull the trigger. Emily then put her finger over his own and pulled it, causing only his fingerprints to appear on the trigger creating a fake truth that Chris murdered Emily.
Emily, was a weak character. She couldn't stand to not be perfect. She wanted to live up to everybody's expectations. So when she found out that she was pregnant, she was at a loss. She didn't tell her parents, nor did she tell Chris. Because of her actions, Chris was accused of murdering her to get rid of the baby because he's going off to college the next year because nobody knew whether she told him or not, except Chris himself. She wasn't scared of dying, she was scared of not dying.
While Chris gave up everything he had to please Emily, Emily didn't love him enough to trust him to save her. She gave up on everything and just caused trouble for him. I know I'm being biased but it's the truth. He loved her too much to reject any request from her. Emily, she didn't think of what might happen to Chris after she died, she didn't think about what he would do. All in all, she's selfish. If you love someone, you let them help you. Chris put his own wants behind him because what Emily wanted is the opposite of what he wanted.
Just how far are people willing to go for the person they love?
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Such great book!
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