The Truth about Forever (Teen's Top 10 (Awards)) by Sarah Dessen
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Book Reviews of The Truth about Forever (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
Book Review: This book was amazing!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Have you ever read a book that you couldn't put down? Well, if you haven't and you would like to, The Truth About Forever is the book to read. This book is about a sixteen year old girl who thinks she is going to spend an uneventful summer filling in for her boyfriend at his work. Jason, Macy's boyfriend is away for the whole summer at something called Brain Camp. Macy is kind of looking forward to helping Jason because ever since her father died, she is not in the mood to do anything except work and study for her SAT's. Since her father died, Macy's mother has become so involved in her job that she doesn't even notice that Macy needs her help. Because of this, Macy decides to take a job at Wish catering. Macy expects this to be just a job that will get her through the summer. In contrast of Macy's expectations, working at Wish catering changes Macy drastically.
Macy changes both mentally and physically. The friends that Macy meets at Wish are very outgoing and supportive. Also, Macy meets a boy that she likes. Luckily for her, Jason has broken up with he because he thought that Macy was getting to attached. At first, Macy was very dissapointed that he broke up with her but as her and Wes, the new guy, start getting closer, she starts to be glad they broke up. Finally, when things start to be getting better for Macy, her mother bans her from seeing Wes and she's not allowed to work for Wish any longer. Macy, usually a very good girl, sees Wes anyways. Because this is close to the end of the book, I cannot say anymore. All I can say is that this is a very good book and I suggest that one reads it.
I liked this book because ot was very suspensful throughout the whoole book. Unlike most books, The Truth About Forever is very unpredictable. Another reason why I liked this book was because I could sort of relate to some of the parts. For example, when Macy was banned from working for Wish and seeing Wes, she just couldn't obey her mother. Even though she knew it was wrong, she just thought it was an unfair thing for her mother to do. I have done things like that before where I know it is wrong but I do it anyways because I don't feel it is fair. The Truth About Forever is one of the best books I have ever read. If one hasn't read it yet, I think one should read it because I believe he or she would really enjoy it.
Book Review: The truth about forever
Summary: 5 Stars
When Macy's father sadly dies, Macy closes her world so that she has no friends, she doesn't talk to her mom about how she really feels, but Macy does have a boyfriend. Macy's boyffriend is beyond perfect, he has his life already outlined for him in lists and on paper. Macy thinks that he is the perfect guy for her, but as he goes away to 'brain camp' she realizes that the string between them, is ripping and falling appart. He mom is a wonderful woman, an always organized real-estate agent. She hosts many party's for people to come and find out about houses, and she gets what she needs. When she hosts this one party, she hires a catering company called ''wish'', who come and change her life. As Macy bustles around the house helping people, showing them where the bathrooms are, she offers to help in the kitchen, because the catering company were short of people at the last minute. As Macy helps them, little does she know, but these people would be changing her life Delia, the owner and head of the company offered her a job position iif she wanted to ever join their crew, The next day Macy heads to the library where her boyfriend is expecting her to perfectly answer questions and help people at the answer desk. Macy hates it, but doesn't say anything to her mom, she keeps it all to herself. One day, as Macy was driving around, she saw the 'Wish Catering' van, and she remembered Delia's offer and so Macy followed the van in her car. As she pulled up behind the van, she found a girl, who was her age. Her name was Kristy. Kristy told her where to find Delia, and so Macy found Delia, and started her first day. Macy enjoys this job, and enjoys these peoples company, so she decideds to work there after her job in the library info desk. During the time she spends with 'Wish' she find about all of those people, Wes- the cute, nice guy of your dreams, Bert- the little brother of Wes, who is always just fun, Kristy- the girl with the best fashions, and then Monica- the girl who doesn't exactly talk. All through the book, Wes and Macy get closer, but they do realize that their relashioships with other people are on hold, just for the summer, so they don't get too close. But Kristy knows better. She urges them closer, al through the book. To find out more read the book...
(It was the best book every- and it was very easy to relate to!)
Book Review: A YA Novel Perfect for All Ages
Summary: 5 Stars
Although the heroine of this novel, Macy, is only seventeen, it's a wonderful read for anyone who has ever experienced the lost of a love one; for anyone who's strived to be the "perfect" person that everyone can know and love; and for every mother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend who has only wanted one thing from life--to be happy, loved, and accepted for who we really are.
The last year and a half has been hard on Macy. After witnessing her father's death after a Christmastime morning run, she's strived to be the "fine just fine" girl--a perfect helper for her mother, a perfect balance to her older sister Caroline's wild days, and a perfect girlfriend to her genius boyfriend.
But when Jason heads off to Brain Camp for the summer and unexpectedly asks for a "break" in their relationship, Macy's world is thrown even more off-kilter. She'd already committed to taking Jason's place at the Library Information Desk for the summer, and she hates the job, and the Miss Perfection girls she gets snubbed by on a daily basis. Her evenings are spent dutifully studying for her SATs the following year, and even her weekends are filled with helping her mother with her business and ironing her clothes for the week.
Then, during a party her mother throws for prospective clients, Macy meets the staff members of Wish, a chaotic catering business. Delia, the very pregnant owner; Kristy, the scarred girl in the outrageous outfits; Monica, the Queen of the One Word Answer; Bert, who's convinced the end of the world is near; and Wes, a boy who spent time in reform school after his parent's divorce and then lost his mother to cancer.
During this particular summer, Macy comes to realize that being the perfect daughter, sister, and girlfriend doesn't stop the world from being a crazy place. It doesn't insulate you from hurt. In fact, being spontaneous, creating new friends, looking outside the shell of a perfect existence, is the only way to realize the truth about forever--it can be two seconds long, or a hundred years. The moment you're living now is your forever, and Macy finally learns how to reach out and grab the moment.
I really loved this book! Although touted as a YA read, I think any woman would enjoy it. It's sad, humorous, and compelling, a definitely wonderful read.
Book Review: beautiful and lyrical
Summary: 5 Stars
In the first pages of this first book I have read by Sarah Dessen, I was hooked. No, it is not the deepest read ever, but the writing is smooth, luminous, and completely takes you away. The characters are as real to you, by the time the book is done, that they are almost like the friends you know in real life. The Truth about Forever is a wonderful book, a story that just leaves you desperately wanting more of it.
Seventeen-year-old Macy Queen's father died two and a half years before this book begins, and Macy was there. His loss haunts her inescapably, but she shields her grief, as does her mother, behind busyness: keeping up her grades, doing yoga, and talking to her intelligent, distant boyfriend, Jason. When Jason leaves for "Brain Camp", Macy feels terribly alone: her mother is constantly working, the girls at the info desk in the library, where she works, are exclusive, and worst of all - Jason breaks off their relationship after, at the end of an email, Macy had the nerve to write the word "love". Desperate for something to distract her, Macy signs on to a job with Wish Catering, and her life and her summer are changed.
The chaos of the disorganized crew at Wish is a welcome relief, and soon enough Macy finds herself fully enjoying the job. Plus, there are several quirky and lovable new people that enter her life: Delia, the kind, somewhat frazzled, pregnant woman who owns Wish; Kristy, the blonde partier who's forever on the lookout for an "exceptional guy"; Monica, Kristy's lethargic but apparently deep sister; Bert, a strange guy with an unusual scientific interest in the end of the world; and, of course, Wes, the beautiful, artistic, formerly-convicted boy with whom everyone, including Macy, is secretly in love.
Slowly, as the summer unfolds, Macy comes out of her protective shell against the pain of grief and begins to live again, with the help of these extraordinary characters that, once you close the covers of this book, will surely miss.
Book Review: Another Fantastic BoOk by DeSSen*
Summary: 5 Stars
Sarah Dessen's new book "the truth about forever," is to me a awsome book. What I liked about it was it taught you lessons, about forever, and your life. On the morning when Macy's father dies he comes in and tells her to get up and go running. She mumbles and he goes without her. Her gulty concious does something to her and she goes pulling on her jogging things. It doesn't take long for macy to see her dad dead from a heart attack and a stranger giving him CPR. She can't cry and she is suddenly thrown into the "girl's dad died role." She wants everything to be perfect which drawls her to Jason. Jason, the smartest boy in her school has everything that Macy likes perfection. She won't allow herself to grieve, over her fathers death. When Macy helps Jason pack for brain camp for the summer she has to take his library desk job. Which doesn't work out so well. But when her mother throws a party for her newly bult condos. Macy is drawn to Wish catering and a seperate life she is finally happy. But things threaten to change that. Her mom's feelings about her and her fathers death. The fixing of the fathers precious beach house. And Jason and Becky coming home. She begins a relationship with Wes, and every girl who meets him thinks he is handsome, and as isabelle and morgan wish catering workers and macys friends...say that she is sa-wooning over him It shows there relationship develop and how Macy changes
I loved this book I thought that it was Fantastic I have already read it twice, If you loved sarah dessen's work you should get this if you never read her, you should read all of her books there great..her characters just come alive i love her what a great author...14 year old~*~