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Amanda's Choice

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Amanda Hamilton is living in torment. She lives with her seemingly disinterested father who is always out of town on their unnamed island on some equally unspecified business. Her mother is dead and Amanda didn't like her because she was always disinterested in her.

Amanda's father has 3 grown children from a previous union, Bud, Chuck and Giselle. They have had little input or influence in Amanda's life. Amanda is raised by a succession of unsatisfactory maids and housekeepers, all of whom plainly dislike her.

The summer she turns 12, her father threatens to send her to an unsatisfactory boarding school unless she shapes up. She meets a young man of Latin heritage who is summering on the island. For the first time in her life she has a humane nanny, a Miss Cathaway. Wary and hostile to all, Amanda does raise everyone's hackles.

Abusing Amanda has become common in that household. The town doctor gives her a sedative shot and has her held down by force. He also spanks her. Why this was permitted is anyone's good guess.

I didn't like the maid who said it would "serve Amanda right if she got raped." What a sick message and equally sick thing to wish on a child! I also didn't like the island cop who hounded Amanda. It bothered me that despite her fury that she "loved the motorcycle ride."

At the close of the story, Amanda leaves the island in search of something better. This story makes you wish you had read something better, which is not hard to do. I didn't like this one.