Susan L Gilbert

Love You Like A Sister (LYLAS) Susan L Gilbert

Love You Like A Sister: LYLAS is a young adult novel about Ivy Green who is torn between her loyalty to her college-age sister Carly, newly in rehab and her new boyfriend who turns out to be the school drug dealer. Love You Like A Sister hits that special sweet spot where romance meets issue.
In the novel, Ivy Green asks herself, "Is it OK to date the school drug dealer when your sister is in rehab?" She soon realizes, "Ugh, probably not." Reading the story of how Ivy falls hard for Bryce Houston, makes new friends with loyal and kind Zoey and tough, popular Phoebe, and then how Ivy must balance these relationships with her family's complicated issues, makes for a relatable, tension-filled story about love, friendship, and the limits of loyalty.