Possible spoilers. You have been warned.
Today were going to be talking about Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen.
Saint Anything Book Cover.
This newest instalment from the world of Sarah Dessen is about a young girl, (aren't they all?) back in the town of Lakeview trying to get through her life with the fiasco her mess of brother has left behind in his trail out of town.
Trying to get out of the giant shadow her brother (Peyton the third) had left behind when he was hauled away. Sydney decides its time to transfer from the fancy prep school her parent had proudly founded for her to attend to the 'regular' high school in town.
The move is complete, now enters a cast full of eccentric characters that seamlessly fit themselves into Sydney's world and vice versa. The Chatham's are a warm fun loving family that are about to radically change Sydney's world, and in my option it'll be for the better.
'Saving' Sydney from her friend Eric Layla Chatham befriends Sydney, and soon do all of Layla's friends including but not limited to her brother Mac Chatham. Spending time with the Chatham's matriarch Sydney starts to get the warm motherly touch and advice that she never got at home from her over achieving mother.
The new friends Sydney makes are very real while reading the book you can imagine yourself right along with them delivering pizzas, listening to blue grass, and hunting for the perfect fries.
This is not the first Sarah Dessen book I have read but it is quickly shooting to the top of the list of my favourite books by this particular author. I love the quirky characters and the descriptive settings you can clearly picture what is going on while you read.
Just like every Sarah Dessen novel there is young love, fights, solutions, compromises, and cameos, but having said that Saint Anything is nothing like Dessesn's other novels it attaches itself to a very real problem that is grossly increasing in todays society (Drug problems, drunk driving, over bearing parents, stress and feeling lost in a crowd in your own home)
Review time!
Okay Saint Anything is an awesome book that touches on so many problems people face today, even if you specifically have not faced a court room for your brother I believe there is something from this book that you can relate to.
I love that in every book other characters make cameo appearances, and that Sarah Dessen has created her own little world between the suburb of Lakeview and the beach of Colby.
Sain Anything is an superb read (I've read it 3 times) and I would recommend it to anyone! Give it a go you never know what you may find.
Thanks for reading! I'll be back soon!
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