While Sydney avoids his phone calls-they have nothing to say to each other, and he won't let her come visit-she tries to accumulate to her new public school, where she transferred to from her swanky private one after her brother's accident and sentence. Despite the fact that her brother Peyton's been on a train just waiting to wreck, her parents-namely, her mother-seem relatively shocked that Peyton is in jail.
Sydney Stanford has sort of lived in the shadow of her bad boy brother, who's currently in jail after he did something horrible while driving drunk (spoiler alert: he hits a kid and puts him in a wheelchair for life). You either will or you won't, and for Saint Anything, well. And when you have a favorite author, you have this expectation and hope when you read one of their books: that you'll love it. (Could you imagine a Sarah Dessen novel that was solely focused on romance?! I WANT ONE.) That said, Sarah Dessen is one of my favorite authors. I don't love all her books, and I prefer the ones that have more romance over the ones that don't. My love for Sarah Dessen's novels began when I was a freshman in high school and I read This Lullaby (my second favorite novel of hers, with the first being Along for the Ride), and since then I have read all of her books (except for The Moon and More, which I have yet to finish). Saint Anything is Sarah Dessen’s deepest and most psychologically probing novel yet, telling an engrossing story of a girl discovering friendship, love, and herself.I was eager to read Saint Anything since I first heard about it solely for the fact that it's a new Sarah Dessen novel.
But it’s with older brother Mac-quiet, watchful, and protective-that Sydney finally feels seen, really seen, at last. Chatham, who even though ailing is the heart of the family. There’s effervescent Layla, who constantly falls for the wrong guy, Rosie, who’s had her own fall from grace, and Mrs. Drawn into their warm, chaotic circle, Sydney experiences unquestioning acceptance for the first time. Now, after a drunk-driving accident that crippled a boy, Peyton’s serving some serious jail time, and Sydney is on her own, questioning her place in the family and the world. Peyton is handsome and charismatic, but seems bent on self-destruction. She's grown accustomed to her brother, Peyton, being the focus of the family’s attention and, lately, concern. "Saint Anything is a poignant, honest story about how we might suffer the misfortune of someone else's bad choices, how people who love us can become family when we desperately need it, and how starting over might - miraculously - mean taking a solid leap forward." -Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling novelist of Leaving Time and My Sister’s Keeper A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015
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