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A review by readingwithdaniella
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
5.0
April 2017: Just as phenomenal the second time around.
There were so many wonderful details that I had completely forgotten about over the past two years, and I fell so in love with the characters all over again - especially Wes. But I adored Macy, Kristy, Mona, and Bert as well. All of them are such unique, quirky, and fantastically realistic characters, like those in all of Sarah Dessen's books. Jason's a jerk though.
This will forever remain one of my favourite YA contemporaries. Highly, highly, highly recommend!
May 2021: I wondered how my feelings for this story would change reading it six years after the first time I picked it up, but honestly, I still loved it. This was one of the first YA books that I ever read back in the day, so it truly blew me away the first time that I read it. I think it may have lost a tiny bit of that magic now because I have read countless other YA contemporary romances since then, but it holds so much nostalgia for me that re-reading it was a really special experience. I thought that the romance between Wes and Macy was ground-breaking at the time, and don't get me wrong, they're still really great characters and they have some cute moments (Waffle House and Truth), but it's not quite as spectacular to me as it was six years ago. However, I will still forever be jealous that I cannot go to Waffle House, I do not have a maple syrup scented pencil, I do not work for a catering company, and I do not have a Wes of my own.
One of my favourite things about this book, as well as most of Sarah Dessen's other books, is the writing style. There are numerous quotable moments throughout the novel that I'm always in a rush to jot down. I though that I had already written down all the best parts the first two times I read this, but I somehow found even more this time! This story specifically deals with grief, but the message of healing could honestly apply to a multitude of different experiences and types of trauma. Reading this book at a much older age, I feel like I understood and related to things differently than I ever had before. I think that the fact that different parts of this book resonated with me in new ways has something to do with the different quotes that stood out to me this time around.
This will still go down as one of my favourite YA contemporaries, and I will never stop recommending it.
There were so many wonderful details that I had completely forgotten about over the past two years, and I fell so in love with the characters all over again - especially Wes. But I adored Macy, Kristy, Mona, and Bert as well. All of them are such unique, quirky, and fantastically realistic characters, like those in all of Sarah Dessen's books. Jason's a jerk though.
This will forever remain one of my favourite YA contemporaries. Highly, highly, highly recommend!
May 2021: I wondered how my feelings for this story would change reading it six years after the first time I picked it up, but honestly, I still loved it. This was one of the first YA books that I ever read back in the day, so it truly blew me away the first time that I read it. I think it may have lost a tiny bit of that magic now because I have read countless other YA contemporary romances since then, but it holds so much nostalgia for me that re-reading it was a really special experience. I thought that the romance between Wes and Macy was ground-breaking at the time, and don't get me wrong, they're still really great characters and they have some cute moments (Waffle House and Truth), but it's not quite as spectacular to me as it was six years ago. However, I will still forever be jealous that I cannot go to Waffle House, I do not have a maple syrup scented pencil, I do not work for a catering company, and I do not have a Wes of my own.
One of my favourite things about this book, as well as most of Sarah Dessen's other books, is the writing style. There are numerous quotable moments throughout the novel that I'm always in a rush to jot down. I though that I had already written down all the best parts the first two times I read this, but I somehow found even more this time! This story specifically deals with grief, but the message of healing could honestly apply to a multitude of different experiences and types of trauma. Reading this book at a much older age, I feel like I understood and related to things differently than I ever had before. I think that the fact that different parts of this book resonated with me in new ways has something to do with the different quotes that stood out to me this time around.
This will still go down as one of my favourite YA contemporaries, and I will never stop recommending it.