The way that Annie on my Mind is written gives us a perspective strictly from the point of Liza. It gives us a clear cut sense of the image of Annie and how the writer wants the audience to view her, but Liza is in the haze.  It affected the way I read the story because I felt that my reading was one dimensional and it also affected the connection I had with the characters because I felt I was hearing what Liza told me not so much reading and actually feeling like I was there with the characters.  I think that while this strategy may have been used to get the reader to be on a more personal level with the writer, I did not feel that I had as big of a connection as I do when it is a more outside force telling the story of two people and feeling like you are right there.

Throughout the book we are told how Annie looks or how she reacts, we know that she is very playful and that she is constantly playing her life in the more "knight's tale" perspective with the sword fights and language she uses when she talks to Liza.  From the first chapter we get a sense of Annie, with her long hair, wearing a cape, her bright eyes, and her deep smile she gets when she senses Liza's attraction to her. We are always fed details about Annie, but when it comes to the looks and demeanor of Liza, we are left short.  I think that because the book is written in letter form it is more of telling the reader about Annie rather than Liza. But still as the reader I wanted to feel more of a what Liza looks like, so that when it came time for me to feel like I was in the book I could visualize everyone. I just didn't feel the connection.

A lot of this plays into the dimension I felt while reading. Everything was just surface level for me. There are so many books that I read and read and cannot put down because I feel so engulfed inside everything that is happening. For Annie on my Mind this was not the case.  Especially when it came down to everything that happened without Annie in the scene, such as all the events that took place in Liza's house, dinners, talks with her parents, talks with Chad, everything just felt like it had this foggy haze over and I just wasn't feeling the true description and perspective that I normally feel in books.

The connection with the characters was not very strong. Normally I'm on one side rooting for the hero or the weaker strength, but this time I just felt like I was reading the story.  That moment when Liza is going through her struggle with school and having to come out to her parents, I felt the lack of sympathy and support from Annie ruined this part of the book. Annie just seemed to think that Liza was supposed to come out to everyone and be fine with explaining things, but when it came down to what Annie had to do she was against all of it. Because it wasn't her school that was involved, I feel that the opinion that Annie had on the subject was not needed. That whole part of the book made me angry because this whole book was about "finding one's self" and I just felt that Liza never really did that, and at the end she did call Annie but I didn't feel that whole "good job!" or "you did it" type of mood. I just left at a mute dull ending for me.