When I first picked up this book, I was like okay. There's no paranormal things in this book at all! No werewolves falling in love with the wrong girl and certainly no faries. But I promised my BFF that I'd read it and help her summarize for our AP english class, so I picked it up with a promise from her that I'd love it. And I did, it was fantastic, like you wouldn't believe. It was cute and sad, yet so fulfilling when the end came. It wasn't a typial boy meets girl story. There was lots of romance, lots lots lots, but it still seemed to be on the side (this coming from the girl who will only read teen-romance) It had a lot in it. GO read it, she's written many books that I've loved but The Truth About Forever was by far, my opinion, her best. And I can't believe I hadn't read it sooner. Here's the summary.
Macy's summer stretches before her, carefully planned and outlined. She will spend her days sitting at the library information desk. She will spend her evenings studying for the SATs. Spare time will be used to help her obsessive mother prepare for the big opening of the townhouse section of her luxury development.
But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or . . . Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn't fit Macy's life at all so why does she feel so comfortable with him? So . . . happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before?
Sarah Dessen delivers a page-turning novel that carries readers on a roller coaster of denial, grief, comfort, and love as we watch a broken but resilient girl pick up the pieces of her life and fit them back together.
This book hits you like a rock thrown out a plane window by some fat stranger he keeps ordering gin&tonic. And I gotta say, then ending definitely surprised me....
But Macy's plans don't anticipate a surprising and chaotic job with Wish Catering, a motley crew of new friends, or . . . Wes. Tattooed, artistic, anything-but-expected Wes. He doesn't fit Macy's life at all so why does she feel so comfortable with him? So . . . happy? What is it about him that makes her let down her guard and finally talk about how much she misses her father, who died before her eyes the year before?
Sarah Dessen delivers a page-turning novel that carries readers on a roller coaster of denial, grief, comfort, and love as we watch a broken but resilient girl pick up the pieces of her life and fit them back together.
This book hits you like a rock thrown out a plane window by some fat stranger he keeps ordering gin&tonic. And I gotta say, then ending definitely surprised me....
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