I wanted to pick up The Truth About Forever again, as soon as I finished reading it. Not sure what I could do with it, but couldn’t let go. I’d spent a couple of days reading Sarah Dessen’s latest book from Puffin, resenting anything of real life that got in the way; family meals, washing machine and other stupid things. Maybe just read it again, or another book just like it. Something.
It was the same with last year’s Just Listen, so it must be a Sarah Dessen thing. Maybe I was a deprived teenager, and I’m getting what I always craved, at long last.
The Truth About Forever is about having a dead parent and needing to strive for perfection. Sarah seems to go for good girls and somewhat “bad” boys. The mothers are a bit wrong, but only so they can see the light, and always for a reason.
There are some very likeable minor characters in this book, and the way Sarah knits together meatballs and junk art and Armageddon is really quite fun.
Nice, too, to see summer holidays feature rather than the standard US High School scene yet again. Though I wouldn’t mind knowing roughly where, geographically, to visualise Sarah’s stories. This one, not too far from Atlanta, I’d guess. It might not matter, but I like to know these things.
Some of Sarah’s books were published in Britain before, by another publisher, but with not very attractive covers. I love what Puffin is doing, and the two covers so far are so sixties, flower power and up to date, that I can’t get over it. Last year I suspected that with a cover like that, the story wasn’t going to be up to much.
How wrong can a witch be?
Read Sarah Dessen!
5 responses so far ↓
Candy // May 2, 2008 at 9:49
sounds like my kind of book - off to amazon i go!
Candy // May 2, 2008 at 9:51
i was very curious about those automatically generated posts at the end of your blog and clicked through to read them. very interesting - but nothing to do with sarah dessen. do they just come with wordpress? sorry, geeky curiousity gets the better of me sometimes.
bookwitch // May 2, 2008 at 10:08
Hope you’ll enjoy the book. It allows you to be a teenager again. And I believe Sarah herself quite likes the hero in this one. If I was only a bit younger… And prettier.
These links are new for this week. WordPress think that they match. ! The first day I thought they almost did. I can get rid of them, but will then not have the reciprocal links from others. What do you think?
Fiona Dunbar // May 2, 2008 at 17:22
GORGEOUS cover! Much more interesting than the American ones.
bookwitch // May 2, 2008 at 22:14
It’s a good example of how to do a feminine cover, that is still cool. And I feel weird because it brings me back to the sixties, where some of you haven’t even been.
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