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Raymond Chang April 20th 2009 ESOL E =**Loves me, Loves me not (in or out) book review**= =**By: Claudia Gabel**=

The world is surrounded with all different kinds of emotions. People turn them into stories, books, or even movies; mostly emotions in stories appear to be about relationships of love and hate. Loves me, Loves me not, a chick fiction book written by Claudia Gabel, which my best friend Joey gave to me, I thought this half broken, outdated book with a guy wearing the best clothes he could find in his closet and a girl standing in front of him, showing the eyes of “I got the best guy in the world” was just going to be another normal, boring, love story. After a quick flips of few pages, it turned out that my prediction was in the opposite side of the truth.

Claudia Gabel, the fantastic author of the fiction book creates brilliant conflicts that are not only incredible, but also bring me different personal perspectives of looking at love and the effects it has caused to other relations. The style of the book is different from any other books I’ve ever read before because the author switches the perspectives of the unfeigned story into different people every single chapter which creates a really interesting and intense linking system between the characters and the plot. This also creates a variety of choices so the reader can pick which suits him or her the best just by reading about the same issue from different perspectives.

Marine Fitzpatrick and Nola are best friends forever. They do everything together until when Nola sees her handmade gift, which she spent light years to finish, is on another girl, Lizette. They start to fall apart and begin their new life without each other. Everything turns sad and different conflicts happen. The good thing is both of them get to get closer to their crushes and actually attach with them. Everything turns awkward and stuck until someone make them misunderstands each other again and breaks the silence between them by making them hate each other more and more…

The book is not like Harry Potter where you can see amazing magic popping in front of you; it’s not like twilight, where you can imagine the perfect vampire with the perfect girl. It’s more like a reality book where it can actually happen in the real world. It’s great to read books that give you millions of ideas, billions of great creative thoughts or even trillions of “and they lived happily ever after” kids stories. But as you grow up, you should sometimes read books that can actually relate to the real world where it can happen right now in every single second. It might not be as interesting as the other books which gives you all the happy things you want to see, but it is certainly a book that can not only gives you some amazing reading times, but also make you strengthen up and be prepared for your future adventures in the forest of love.