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A review by lrcartee
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4.0
Sal’s life was as close to perfect as it could get. His adoptive father was the best dad anyone could ask for, his best friend Samantha (Sam) was always there for him and his senior year was dawning. Yet despite all the good in his life, Sal could feel an anger welling up inside and he didn’t know how to deal with it. Did it mean he was “bad” and perhaps more like his biological father than his adopted dad? Could it be all the change that was coming his way? His Mima’s cancer recurrence, everyone pressuring him about his college applications, there was so much change being thrown at him, all he wanted to do was hunker down and have things stay the same. Then there was the letter. The letter his dead mom wrote before she died when he was three. His dad decided the time was right for him to have it but Sal just couldn’t bring himself to open it. He could feel everything he had always known shifting and the questions of who he really was and who would he become just wouldn’t be silenced. Then when an unimaginable tragedy struck Sal’s and Sam’s entire world collapsed and their resolved was tested as never before.
This book was a beautiful tribute to love. The love of a father and son, of friends and of families and mothers. The idea that love could come in all forms in happiness, in anger, in fear was throughout the book. In a world of uncertainty and skepticism, this book was a ray of light. There were sad parts and at times a lot of despair but love always wins in this book. Families being friends and friends being family leaning on each other to get each through even the toughest times. I loved that Sam and Sal were depicted as such loving and close friends without even a hint of romance between them. I loved everything about this book.
This book was a beautiful tribute to love. The love of a father and son, of friends and of families and mothers. The idea that love could come in all forms in happiness, in anger, in fear was throughout the book. In a world of uncertainty and skepticism, this book was a ray of light. There were sad parts and at times a lot of despair but love always wins in this book. Families being friends and friends being family leaning on each other to get each through even the toughest times. I loved that Sam and Sal were depicted as such loving and close friends without even a hint of romance between them. I loved everything about this book.