Thank you Sarah Dessen

I remember where and when I got my first Sarah Dessen book, Lock and Key. I got it in an American bookstore in Canton, next to Best Buy, and it was in Summer of 2009. I hadn't heard of Sarah Dessen, nor have I ever read anything by her. But I was buying a load of books, and it was just one that appealed to me. I read it on the way home to Ireland, I managed to actually finish the books before reaching Irish soil. I'd by then I realized I had a new found love- Sarah Dessen.

What I didn't realize was that these books would always make me feel so much better about everything. The fact that I am raised my a single mother. I am always worried that I won't be able to keep my family happy. I am always worried that at any minute we would all realize that we were not happy together, with it being just the three of us, and thing would just crumble. That we would realize we needed a father figure, and things were not working out, as we had hoped.

In Last Chance- Sarah Dessen, the fact that Collie is raised by a single mother is not the main theme. Having confidence in yourself was. But it was still there and it was probably what interested me the most. Collies mother had to raise Collie by herself, as hard as it was in the beginning, where they were living in a car, by the end, everything was okay and had worked out well.

Which has made me gained confidence in the fact that, in the end, everything will be okay. I still worry that one day we will all just be sad. But day by day, I worry less because if it is bound to happen, it will happen. And there is nothing much I can do about it. And in a way I have Sarah Dessen and her lovely books to thank for that