Fisher Amelie
Publication date: December 25th 2012 by Fisher Amelie
Rating: 4 stars
If you’re looking for a story about a good, humble girl, who’s been hurt by someone she thought she could trust, only to find out she’s not as vulnerable as she thought she was and discovers an empowering side of herself that falls in love with the guy who helps her find that self, blah, blah, blah...then you’re gonna’ hate my story.All kinds of sad and wonderful.
Because mine is not the story you read every time you bend back the cover of the latest trend novel. It’s not the “I can do anything, now that I’ve found you/I’m misunderstood but one day you’ll find me irresistible because of it” tale. Why? Because, if I was being honest with you, I’m a complete witch. There’s nothing redeeming about me. I’m a friend using, drug abusing, sex addict from Los Angeles. I’m every girlfriend’s worst nightmare and every boy’s fantasy.
I’m Sophie Price...And this is the story about how I went from the world’s most envied girl to the girl no one wanted around and why I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
This story will rip your apart just to put you back together and you'll be happy about it.
We meet Sophie as she's snorting her way through her very on road of self-destruction and gets busted for it. She's sentenced to spend six months in Masego, Uganda helping out in an orphanage in an attempt to show her that life is way more than designer shoes and partying when you're parents are out of town. She's completely overwhelmed when she gets there and see the discrepancies of the life she leads and the life of those who live in Uganda and of the children who lost their parents - and some part of themselves - for the war.
It was amazing to read about how much Sophie grows up in her time there, her time facing tragedy and death and the horrors that human beings are capable of committing. And not only that, but she also learns how to love and let herself be loved.
Fisher Amelie did it again. Amazing story.
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