As I have previously stated with my reviews for Sarah Dessen
books, I absolutely adore them – except for Dreamland
and That Summer – but I feel like I
need to amend that statement. Now, before you think ‘wait, does that mean she
didn’t like this book, too?’ No. I loved this book, it’s just that The Truth About Forever and Just Listen have some minor plot lines
that I am not too big of a fan of.
Macy is trying to be perfect. She has the perfect boyfriend,
the mother who has high expectations of her daughter, and a summer job where if
she’s not perfect they will eat her alive. But she isn’t perfect, no matter how hard she tries to be. Her cracks start
showing the summer that Jason decides to go away to Brain Camp and gives her
the responsibility to cover for him at his library information desk job. His
other two co-workers hate her and don’t understand how Jason can be with a girl
like her. After complaining in an e-mail to him (and signing it with I love
you), he sends her one back that suggests that they take a break for the summer
and see how things stand when he comes back. Not sure how to handle this, she
goes for a drive and comes across the WISH catering truck that had been at her
house earlier in the summer. She takes another job with them and starts an
interesting summer…
Okay, so obviously I really hated Jason, he was just so
controlling and I really don’t think he cared too much for Macy at all, he just
believed that he did. Like when he does come back from Brain Camp and tries to
get back together with her, he’s like ‘let’s make a list of what we want out of
this relationship.’ A guy like that doesn’t need a relationship with a human
being, he needs one with a robot. The character of Wes was just…there are
actually no words to describe this amazing character. Especially the way that
Macy and his friendship grew into something more. Perfection. Still, another YA
book where the parent was annoying, although with this one I could somewhat see
where she was coming from. She was a grieving parent, who had a business to
run, and a daughter who she thought was trying to be perfect is sort of
breaking out of her shell and she doesn’t know how to handle all of it at once.
But still, I liked Deborah better after her meltdown than I did throughout the
rest of the book.
So what’s the plot line that I’m having issues with? Macy’s
dad’s death. Not the best book to read during Father’s Day weekend, and because
I’m really close to my dad any book that has the dad dead kind of makes me cry.
Final Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Another perfect summer read
by Dessen, just wish that the dad hadn’t been dead.
Bookshelf worthy? I finally read my copy after two years of
having it on my shelf!
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