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Reader reviewed by Iryna

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.

The second I finished this book I smacked my forehead.
Why? Because I hadn't read this book earlier! If you haven't read this
novel yet, GO GET IT!

If someone ever asks me if a book has ever
changed my life then I will tell them, not missing a beat, "The Truth
About Forever" by Sarah Dessen. This book is not only entertaining, it
really makes you see life in a different perspective and ask yourself
if this is the way you want to spend your life.

I have both
laughed and cried while reading this book, both releasing some sort of
water (I have a bad habit of spitting while laughing) which has been
terrible for my book. I have read the last paragraph of this novel so
many times that I have lost count. Here it is now (don't worry, no
spoilers!):

"That was the
thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It
was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It
was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any
instant I wished would just last and last. But there was only one truth
about forever that really mattered and that was this: it was happening.
Right then, as I ran into the bright sunlight, and every moment
afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now."

This book has A+ written all over it!