Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King is melancholy, yet charming story of a girl named Vera who is being haunted by her dead best friend, Charlie. Vera and Charlie grew up together, finding ways to deal with their dysfunctional families and survive their somewhat lonely school lives. After high school started and the other kids at school start noticing Chralie’s devil-may-care attitude he started to hang out with new friends and, much to Vera’s dismay, a multitude of girlfriends. When Charlie dies and is blamed for a horrific crime, Vera is still too angry from his betrayal to tell the truth of what happened. So now, Charlie is haunting her.
This story was beautiful and perfect in so many ways. Vera and Charlie are such dynamic characters; complete train wrecks. But no matter what horrible things they did or said to each other, they still share a special love for one another. It took me a long time to read this fairly short book because I just found it so sad. I still recommend it though.
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