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Title: The Truth About ForeverAuthor: Sarah Dessen
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 374
Date read: September, 2011
Sixteen-year-old Macy Queen is looking forward to a long, boring summer. Her boyfriend is going away. She's stuck with a dull-as-dishwater job at the library. And she'll spend all of her free time studying for the SATs or grieving silently with her mother over her father's recent unexpected death. But everything changes when Macy is corralled into helping out at one of her mother's open house events, and she meets the chaotic Wish Catering crew. Before long, Macy joins the Wish team. She loves everything about the work and the people. But the best thing about Wish is Wes—artistic, insightful, and understanding Wes—who gets Macy to look at life in a whole new way, and really start living it.
This book seemed quite different from the other book I've read by Sarah Dessen, and from what I expected from her from hearing from other readers. In one way it was the sane though - there's apparently always sone sort of tragedy that has occurred to the main character shortly before the book starts, and which she is coming to terms with during the book. But unlike the last book (where the tragedy was rape), here it is the loss of a parent, and somehow that made the book more rateable. This seemed like a true depiction of a summer of change in an average teenager's life. I really enjoyed it, even if I had hoped Macy would quit the info desk and confront Jason earlier.
