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Amy and Matthew: A Love Story by Cammie McGovern – review

Scoutingforbooks 'Bland, boring, mind-blowingly stupid'
  
  


When Amy asked her mum to be able to socialize more, put simply, she wanted not to have to be stuck with the teachers helping her, she wanted to be able to talk to people her actual age, maybe get over the sympathy barrier and, finally, make some actual friends. You see when you are paralyzed, everything changes, well, for her, it has always been like this.

Matthew has got his own issues, in between 'looking after' Amy and dealing with his own fears and in-capabilities.

But when Amy starts to fall for Matthew what's going to happen to their relationship is it going to end in shambles or are they finally going to get together?

This book was not only a disappointment to me but such a badly written and executed story that the only thing it feeds off of is your sympathy and it hasn't even won that mere prize.

Now, don't get me wrong, I understand that some of the best pieces of writing capture your sympathy and feed off of it, and sometimes that's the reason why you love that, and feel for the characters. Though all this book does is introduce stupid sob stories and storylines that will soon fade away and vanish into the book un-noticed asking why the author put them in the book at all.

And for Amy? They only make her character seem somewhat aggressive by making sure that every singular word that she says is in capitals which I cannot blame the author for I must admit.

I would give this book a 3/10 because it was not only bland, and boring but also mind-blowingly stupid.

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