Someone Like You By Sarah Dessen

I recently reread one of my all time favorite novels, Someone Like You, written by Sarah Dessen which includes characters, a brilliant plot, unpredictable conflicts, and the readers reactions that make this novel a must read. Sarah has a perfect sense for the key details to capture readers attention. She has written many other astounding books, Someone Like You is just one of my many favorites. Sara is not only an exceptional writer, but an exceptional person as well. She is selfless, never takes full credit for any of books; in fact, she once stated at a book signing, “I am incredibly blessed with the amazing and very patient editors. I could not achieve this amount of success without them.” This book has the best style of writing the

Halley says, “until the day Scarlett looked up from behind those white sunglasses and made a spot for me next to her for the rest of my life and I was grateful. Because life is an ugly, awful place to not have a best friend” (Dessen, 23). When Halley's best friend Scarlett calls her in the middle of the night while Halley is at camp, Halley can tell immediately from her voice that something is wrong. Scarlett tells Halley that her boyfriend, Michael Sherwood, died in a motorcycle accident that afternoon, and she asks Halley to come home. Their friendship may bend under the weight, but it’ll never break–because a true friendship is a promise you keep forever. The first-person Scarlett told about her pregnancy was Halley because like Halley said before life is an ugly place not to a friend to tell your secrets. Halley stood by through all the tough times. In the book when Scarlet gets pregnant and Halley is there for her the whole way and she even attends breathing classes. Halley and Scarlett, at some points in the book just want to give up, but every time one of the friends holds the other one together which ties to the main theme of the book. Their friendship goes through many ups and downs, but in the end they always have each other’s backs which also ties back to the main

We all know real life is not always rainbows and butterflies, bad things happen to good people, and no one is perfect. Scarlett's boyfriend Michael dies in a motorcycle crash and a few weeks later she finds out she is pregnant with his baby. Throughout the book Halley meets a boy named Macon. Halley's mother tries to control every aspect of Halley's life and doesn't approve of Macon. Halley starts to rebel by sneaking out lying about where she is going and doing, smoking pot, and fighting with Scarlett. Halley and Macon get in a fight on New Years Eve and end up in a pretty bad car accident. Proving her parents correct that Macon was indeed reckless and dangerous, Macon does not put in much of an effort to go see Halley in the hospital or at her house when she goes home. After telling her he supposedly cared for her. Finally, she gets so frustrated with him and they break up. No one expected Michael to die, or Scarlet to begin pregnant, or Halley to act out, but that is just it, that is why everything happened. To beat all Scarlett goes into labor at prom, in this story she proves to us over and over we never know what is around the corner. This theme is the most important to me, to always expect the unexpected. There is a saying that goes hand in hand with this it goes “hope for the best and prepare