I picked up a book by Sarah Dessen randomly in a book store, I read the last page
and it was very interesting. When I went to the library, I found more of her books. I picked a
specific one out and I fell in love with it. I've never been one to li
ke reading, but once I found
this author, I've read nearly half of her books, this being one.
Ruby is a 17-year-old who is counting down the day she becomes a legal adult and gets out of the foster care system. Ruby’s alcoholic, drug abusing mother left her three months prior to her entering into the system. She lived alone in a house that she couldn’t afford to pay rent as she went to school and balanced a part-time job. When social services found this out, Ruby was sent to live with her sister, whom she’d not seen or even heard from in 10 years, along with her new husband, Jamie, a successful business who invented the trending site of social media.
Ruby not only has a new family, but she is also in an unfamiliar part of town and going to a school where she doesn’t know anyone. One night, she had an encounter with her new neighbor as she tried to run away. Her new neighbor, Nate, the nice and popular jock, (He was described in the book to be a very good looking, male model) and her start to become close and eventually open up to each other, which is not something either of them tend to do.
The quote I picked out, I feel, is relatable to everyone, “Everyone
has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always
bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.” This
quote surfacing the meaning behind the key she holds on her neck from her old
house, but looking deeper into it, it can mean so much more.