Saint Anything is about Sydney a girl who has always felt invisible thanks to her older brother Peyton. Sydney has gotten used to her brother getting all of the attention both at school and at home. Then he began to act out and started participating in acts of self-destruction such as drugs and other illegal activities. When after one night of driving home and hitting a boy crippling him Peyton is now serving time in prison and now Sydney is one her own questioning so much. Sydney's father is working all the time and her mother is showing signs of thinking that Peyton being in jail is not as bad as it should be.
Then Peyton meets the Chatham family, she is drawn to their warm and chaotic everyday lives. Lives that Peyton has never experienced before. There's Layla who is constantly falling in love with the wrong kind of guy, Rosie who has had her own type of fall from grace, their quiet brother Mac who Sydney begins to feel as though someone is finally seeing her and Mrs. Chatham who even with her ailing health seems to be the heart of the family and someone Sydney knows she can go to whenever she needs to talk to someone.
I enjoyed reading this book and my only really complaint comes from the book seeming to just end out of nowhere leaving the reader to wonder just what does happen next? But besides that not only do I recommend people read this book but other books by this author as well you will not regret it and know that I don't.
One thing I do have to say that I love about this author is that she incorporates things from her previous books into every new book that she writes. Although they may be something small like a mention of a place where a previous book took place it makes you think back to the other books and makes you appreciate this author all the more. It also makes you feel as though all of the books are connected and that Dessen is proud of all the books that she has written.
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