Dessen, Dessen and More Dessen

Hey there guys!!! Hope everyone has been doing alright lately! I’ve been really busy with school and such. Actually busy is an understatement, I’ve been pretty stressed out. It’s amazing how some college professors expect you to go to lecture three times a week, have a three hour lab, a discussion class and expect you to spend 15 hours of week outside of class focused on the class, all the while having to go to other classes and do the homework for those classes. That doesn’t even include work and family obligations! So suffice it to say I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. However, I only have a month left to go and hopefully I’ll have passed my classes so I won’t have to worry about taking them again next semester. >_< Yes I will admit that there is a small chance of failure in at least one of my classes, but oh well. Life happens.

                So anyways on to business and books. As I said in my last post I am going to be doing a few blogs on Sarah Dessen’s books, but instead of just doing one book at a time I decided to combine a few of them together at a time. I hope you guys don’t mind! I kind of forgot just how many books she really had. The three I am going to be writing about today are This Lullaby, Along for the Ride, and What happened to Goodbye. 

                Now as I have said before Sarah Dessen’s books have main female characters who eventually discover that they are stronger than what they originally thought they were. To me a lot of her characters young girls should be able to relate to them. They could be real and they have real problems. Some authors find that difficult to do, but  not Dessen. She does it immaculately.

                So first off we have This Lullaby. Remy is the name of our female star. She’s an average girl with three best friends, Chloe, Jess, and Lissa. Her mother is a romance writer who is about to get married to her fourth husband. Her brother was a deadbeat until he got a new girlfriend. Her idea of love as cynical as any of us young women can be towards it. In her mind she saw it all through what her mother went through. From her musician father who left when she was a baby, leaving Remy with a song about her called This Lullaby,  to husband number four, whom her mother will be marrying at the start of the book. 

                Remy doesn’t quite believe in love, obviously, when you see your mother go through a lot you tend not to. However, all the changes when she meets Dexter. Dexter who is messy, disorganized, irresponsible and in a band.  Her plan was to just have him around for the summer before college and break up with him, but as the summer draws to her close and her mother deals with another heartbreak, what will Remy decide to do? I guess you will have to read. J

                The second book up is What Happened to Goodbye? The main lead in this book is McLean. After her mother cheated on her father and left him for the other man McLean decided to live with her dad. The problem? Well he traveled a lot, meaning McLean had to move schools a lot. To most people this would be less than ideal, but to Mclean this was the most ideal situation ever. Every school she went to meant a new identity that she could adopt. She could be anybody she wanted and she liked that. All it started with was a new name and it went from there.

                But what happens when she slips up and uses her real name? she soon realizes that it takes a lot more than just a name to be someone else. It takes real friends, a connection with family, and it takes faith in one’s self to really understand who you are.

                Now Along for the Ride is about a girl named Auden who is smart, driven and determined. Her parents had gotten a divorce and her father moved to a town called Colby. It’s a small town and from me to you readers it is also the setting for a few other books of Dessen’s. Auden’s parents had gotten a divorce and she went to stay with her father for the summer, which also meant staying with his new wife and her new baby sister. This summer was supposed to be preparing for college, reading her text books and getting ready for school.

                Auden ends up with a job at her stepmothers clothing store taking care of the finance books. She becomes friends with the girls who work there and also befriends a mysterious and quiet Eli. Auden suffers from a little bit of insomnia so when she runs into Eli late at night they bond, but what happens when Auden realizes she’s getting to close to him and she starts feeling like she’s slacking off on preparing for college? Well…..read and find out!

                Alright guys hope you enjoyed this one! Don’t forget to follow and keep checking in for new updates!! Keep turning those pages!!