A review by showthisbooksomelove
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen

4.0

Continuing my Sarah Dessen backlist kick, I picked this book up in early June while I was travelling to visit family. This book felt like the opposite of my High School experience in many ways. Macy has her life organized and put together because her own mother's life as a writer is completely disorganized. Macy rebels against touchy-feely relationships because her mother falls in and out of love and marriages like the changing of the seasons. So Macy has the perfect distanced boyfriend who is helping her build her resume and structure her time efficiently and productively, and Macy takes no time to be a teenager figuring her way in the world.

Macy's sister is really bothered by this fact, and continues to encourage Macy to go out and have some wild times. This was one part of this book that was supposed to be a "good thing" but really just rubbed me the wrong way. I think it's okay for teenagers to be organized if they want to be. Macy's sister was trying to get her to have some fun, but fun doesn't have to be High School parties and late nights out. In the end, Dessen reveals a nice compromise between Macy's previously boring life and what her sister thinks she should be doing.

I love Macy's catering job with Wish. Those scenes perfectly describe the controlled chaos that is the food industry. I love working in the food industry for all of the chaos and last minute changes that are required. The people Macy meets while working at Wish are these incredibly full humans with all of their own drama and goals and experiences that open up a full world of possibilities to Macy. I love Wes's art.

If you're not one for touchy-feely teen coming of age stories, don't bother picking this book up. It reads just like all of Sarah Dessen's other books, which I'm discovring is something I really enjoy. I love character driven novels, I love reading about people exploring every day life.