Between Here and Forever by Elizabeth Scott

I guess, I’m up in the air and we’ll see what I think after trying some more of her books.Abby's just a normal junior in high school - one who's always been used to living in her sister's shadow. However, I didn’t love Low Red Moon and I don’t love Between Here And Forever. I thought Living Dead Girl was pretty good, and did an excellent job of capturing Alice’s fear and not victim-blaming. I do want to read more Scott, because from what I hear, she’s a great writer and I think I’m just finding the wrong books by her. Also, Eli is such a nice kid, especially for putting up with Abby’s awkward, plus he’s three dimensional what with OCD and all. Scott is very straight forward in her writing and that is admirable. I bet if she spent half the time she does hating herself on a hobby, she’d probably be really good at the hobby and actually interesting.ĭon’t get me completely wrong though, I didn’t hate Between Here And Forever. Is it necessary to spend around 150 pages talking about how perfect your sister is? Did she really honest to goodness think a random stranger would wake her sister up? I mean, goodness sakes if someone ever was like, ‘hey April, my brother is in a coma and you are so hot you can totally wake him up just by talking and then you will fall in love with him.’ I’d back away slowly with an exclamation of ‘um, ooooookay crazysauce, back to the ward with you.’ I get that desperate times call for desperate measures, but that doesn’t mean I have to like Abby for being so desperate. I don’t think I am supposed to feel this much disdain for a main character, unless it is on purpose. Then, Abby is all weird and awkward turtle and I find myself pretty much cringing at every other word out of her mouth. Eli is incredibly good look according to Abby. Abby then gets the hairbrained idea that this random guy who shows up in the hospital, Eli, who goes to some prep school in the town, will make her sister wake up just by talking to her. I’m not gonna lie, I would much rather hang out with Tess, comatose or not, because at least she’s not prattling on and on about how much she hates herself. Of course, Tess is in a coma, but still great and awesome. Abby, however, spends all of her time whining about how great and awesome Tess is and how much Abby herself is a non-entity. Her sister Tess is mad hot, everyone wants to bone her, blah blah.

In Between Here And Forever, Abby is pretty much the boring sister. Number 3) I want to read more Elizabeth Scott, but not for the reasons you might think.

Number 2) I am the master at figuring out ‘secrets’ by the 20th page.

Number 1) A coma and a persistent vegetative state are not the same thing. I learned several important things after reading Between Here And Forever by Elizabeth Scott.

Between Here and Forever by Elizabeth Scott