The Truth About Foreverby Sarah Dessen
reviewed by Kayla Montgomery, class of 2015
Sarah Dessen’s books are not just romance novels, they are masterpieces beautifully crafted tying in an addictive love story and real life events. This makes the relationship you have always dream of seem more attainable. The Truth About Forever is about a senior in high school named Macy who has always strived to be “perfect”, the perfect daughter, the perfect girlfriend, and the perfect sister. However, when she finds a new job over the summer at a catering company she realizes that no one can really be perfect, but everyone has their own flaws that make up who they are. Sarah Dessen’s novels always have an underlying message. She does not just talk about your typical love story, but she teaches you a moral lesson that you can take away and really reflect on and apply it to your life. The Truth About Forever teaches us that not only should we take chances in life, but also we should live life enjoying it and taking in every moment because life does not go on forever. She also teaches that sometimes in life we have to take risks and not be afraid of the results. She states in her novel, “It’s just one of those things…You know, that just happen. You don’t think or plan. You just do it”(Dessen 360). Dessen explains to us that some things in life happen for a reason. We do not have to plan things or worry about the consequences. She demonstrates that we have to sometimes be impulsive and take risks and not be afraid of the outcome because if we are, we will always be left wondering what would happened if I took that chance, that leap of faith would my life have ended up differently? So what I take away from the story is, that we are all capable of finding not only our one true love, but also life does not go on forever. Life is always changing and what we should focus on is living in the moment and taking in all that life has to offer. I think Sarah Dessen stated it beautifully in her final words of the novel, “You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing; it was what everything really was about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really matters, and it was this: it was happening. Right then”(Dessen 374). I have not been able to call a book one of my favorites in a long time, however The Truth About Forever I now consider one of favorite books hands down. Her novel really touched me, and I would recommend it to any one. If you liked any of the books written by Sarah Dessen such as Lock and Key, Just Listen, and Along for the Ride you will love this book.
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