This was my first Amber Brown book and I really, really liked it. The book has a way of being fun and silly, but it also has a really important message. It's a valuable message at any age - some adults still don't get this stuff!
This book just didn't inspire me to want to read any more of the series. Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends, but you find out right away that Justin will be moving. So it's hard to invest any feelings into their relationship when you know it's going to end by the end of the book. I think everyone can relate to having a friend move away or being the friend that moves away, but when you haven't sunk a couple books worth of feelings into the relationship (think Ramona Quimby when they thought they might have to move to a rural town for her dad to find a teaching job toward the end of the series), it's just hard to really relate. And I didn't super like any of the characters. Just kind of meh for me.
Fue de mis primeros libros favoritos de la infancia/adolescencia. Realmente siempre anhelé tener un mejor amigx desde pequeña y a lo largo de mi vida, he tenido mejores amigxs. Releerlo de nuevo me causa nostalgia porque puedo ver cuanto a cambiado mi persona y el cómo me relaciono con los demás, años atrás pude sentirme muy identificada con cómo actuaba Ámbar Dorado; ese sentimiento de amar tanto a un amigx y llegar a cierta posesividad, el no tener una buena comunicación y también ser orgullosa. Actualmente no soy así, me gusta mucho cuidar de mis relaciones, que estas sean recíprocas y que exista una buena comunicación, y si en algún momento, alguna de mis personas se tuviera que marchar, me sentiría triste pero muy feliz.
Amber is losing her best friend just after losing her dad, who moved to France for work. Amber doesn't know how to deal with emotions and lose of her best friend moving half way round the world.
A story about kids having to deal with real life issues.