The Truth about Forever
by Sarah Dessen
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Plot Summary: Macy Queen is a teenage girl whose
life only revolves around studying, helping her mother’s work and pleasing her
idealist boyfriend.
When her boyfriend, Jason Tabot, went to attend
Brain Camp to spend his summer, Macy, on the other hand, was stuck doing
library works Jason left her (she’s actually compelled to do it since she did
not want to disappoint her boyfriend. Ugh.) together with two coworkers, who are
both oozing with hatred and superiority complex, in the morning and working
with the Wish Catering – a group of crazy individuals, which consists of consists
of Delia, Bert, Kristy, Monica, and Wes, at night.
Wish Catering, most especially Wes, helped her
realize that life will not be complete without a dash of chaos. Wes brought out
the grief that Macy’s been holding in ever since her father died and because of
this Macy felt really grateful, not just for the companionship but also for
giving herself a chance to enjoy what being a teenager really is.
Unfortunately, Macy’s mother, Deborah Queen, saw how
her once perfect daughter change because of the Wish’s staff that’s why she decided to sever Macy’s ties with the Wish Catering by
grounding her for the rest of the summer.
Macy then reverted back to her regular lifestyle
which is to study for college, do the normal routine, and help her mother until
the night of the grand opening gala for the new townhouses came. The night
before the gala is a disaster but eventually, Wish catering came to help and assisted,
making the event very successful. Since then, her mother’s view on Wish changed
and Macy finally realized certain amount of things like one would not be able
to enjoy life without a little bit of disorganization, forever is happening, and
She and Wes are totally in love with each other.
The Truth! : The Truth about Forever is an
interesting book to read especially when you, as the reader, are looking for a
light romance novel.It doesn’t actually contain too much cheesy parts but seriously, even the phrase ‘I love you’ brought the Macy, the protagonist, despair when she wrote those three words to Jason (actually when I read that Jason and Macy’s relationship lasted for a year and a half, I was like, ‘Seriously?! Why the heck did you not realize sooner that your relationship isn’t going to work?!’) But still the wheels of fate turned, Macy got the love she deserved from Wes and everybody’s happy, except for Jason that is.
Going back to the topic, the book not only revolves
around a girl and a guy going brouhaha over trivial matters but it is also
about family. Actually everything started because of what happened in Macy’s
family! When her dad died, Macy and the rest of the family members got
depressed. Macy got herself a boyfriend which she thought is someone who can
organize her life back to normal, her mother, Deborah Queen overworked herself,
giving Macy a hard time to release her locked away feelings while her sister,
Carolyn Queen, married at an early age which resulted to lack of communication.
Why is it entitled The Truth about Forever? Well if
you guessed that it’s related to Wes’ and Macy’s love story, well you are
partially right. Actually it was not thoroughly discussed but Kristy, one of
Wish’s staff, enlightened Macy about what this forever with the words, “It all
depends on how you choose to live it. It’s like forever, always changing.”
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