I Love You Too Much

This is the story of Paul, a teen living on the Left Bank of Paris, lost, confused, alone. His family is very rich, and that is oddly isolating. His parents have split up and moved on with new relationships, and Paul is left out. There's no one he is close to at school either, and Paul doesn't do well there academically either, another reason he is a disappointment. Paul finds some consolation in food, and he spends a great deal of the story eating foods he has been asked not to eat.

The story is very well written. I felt every detail in the plot was exactly the way a teen would see things. It was a desperately sad story, exactly how one feels as a teen, as if parents have let you down, friends let you down, life has let you down. The three stars is simply a reflection of how uncomfortable and unhappy I was to read this story, not a reflection of the amazing writing. I, like most people, would never want to go back to those awful and uncertain days as a teen, and, in reading this book, I did.