Amelia Unabridged
by Ashley Schumacher
Wednesday Books, 2021. 293 pages. Young Adult Fiction
Amelia and Jenna are brought together by a book store and a book. They were meant to be best friends forever. They were going to go to college together and take all the same generals. They were going to be roommates. Jenna had it all planned out, and Amelia needed to be tethered to someone, so she gladly followed the plan.
The summer after graduation, Jenna and Amelia, super fans of
N.E. Endsley's amazing Orman Chronicles,
find themselves waiting for the panel that will announce the last book in the
series, made by N.E. Endsley himself. Amelia heads for the restroom and while
she is gone, Jenna meets the terrified Endsley, right outside of the authors'
green room. He is having a panic attack. When Amelia returns, she hears the
announcement that the Orman panel is canceled. Jenna is strangely quiet about
it all. Later she tells Amelia that she tried to help Endsley by telling him to
do what was best for him, which led to the panel cancelation. Amelia is
devastated and angry. She hold’s Jenna accountable for all her dashed hopes and
dreams about meeting Endsley. She is slow to forgive Jenna, so when Jenna is
killed in a car accident a week later, Amelia is devastated again.
Amelia becomes obsessed with searching for signs from Jenna.
When the 101st out of 100 copies of the leather bound Orman Chronicles
shows up for her at her book store with no information about the sender, Amelia
knows she needs to find out who sent it. She thinks it’s from Jenna, but she
has to be sure. So, she heads to Michigan, to another bookstore that might know
where the book came from. Little does she know that this bookstore will bring
her together with none other than N.E. Endsley!
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