After Abandoning Book...

So i finished, Breathless FINALLY yesterday. I had previously abandoned this book and then decided i should just finish it. It isn't very long, but it seemed to drag on forever. Finishing it didn't make me like it anymore, especially because i didn't like the ending. When i finish books, usually i can find a message and in this book i found some messages, but i feel like the ending didn't resolve or out closure to any of them and that's what I decided to write my blogpost on.

One message I found was that you shouldn't assume that your parent doesn't love you because parents have different ways of loving people and showing that. katie, the protagonist, and her brother, Will live with their parents and they call their dad, the ghost, because he never is around. He always is working and only seems to show up when someone is in trouble and needs scolding. Katie and Will took this in the way of, he doesn't love us. But when Will is gone and Katie comes home, she realizes the ghost does care. So I think i do agree with this message, but not exactly how the author portrays it. I think part of the lesson learned here is in the ghosts hands, and the author should show that the ghost wasn't exactly the best parent. I think a lot of times parents aren't sure how to deal with everything and can't take the role of a parent. I can definitely connect to this being a teenager myself. But as sassy as we can be, I think the parent also needs to understand what a tough place we are in and how it's hard for us as well. I think that Katie and Will had their flaws, but they're growing up and they are going to make mistakes, but they won't exactly learn from them if they are scolded, but then put behind them with nothing left for them to deal with. I think the ghost tries to fix everything himself so everything can be perfect, but really it's in the child's hand to take responsibility as well. But the thing that really bugged me was in the end, Will didn't come to a closure or realization of this message, and the end was totally off topic and didn't mention this at all. How is a reader supposed to learn from this message if the characters in the book can't even recognized the resolution?

I think this book also carried on the ordinary plot of girl meets boy, they fall in love, fight, they break up, they are friends. And i think this book is a perfect example of one of those books that just rides along the surface and doesn't dive in deeper why relationships go like that, and also if they even do? It really bugs me when books send a message that everyone would like to believe because that would be in a perfect world, but there is no such thing! Why can't books send a message that we can learn in our imperfect world? I think that this was such a stereo typical book of that perfect boarding school, but oh wait, everyone's nice to each other and there's no monarchy. I think for this book, there needed to be that place where the imperfections could shine through. I think that is what makes the most interesting messages and the most relatable.

I think the Characters in this book were interesting, but there could be a better plot line and a better message portrayal throughout the book to make it better. I think the lesson that i learned as a writer reading this book was you should never make it a happy ending that everyone knows only happens in fairytales because your reader will be lied to and/ or your message won't be received.