Warning: It's a crying book.
And for a girl with daddy issues like me, it was a mega extra crying book.
The story pretty much follows Sydney Shephard for most of the time. Other than the fact that her mom likes her sister a lot more than her, and that results in lots of picking on by mother dearest, her life is pretty good. She has some pretty amazing friends and she falls in love with an incredible guy the summer before leaving for college. The two of them do a pretty phenomenal job of keeping their long distance relationship until Sydney slips up her senior year.
She has a little too much to drink during the last sorority party before graduation, and ends up sleeping with one of her best guy friends. Eight weeks later while studying for her finals, she realizes that her period is late. After taking a pregnancy test from Wal Mart, her life goes on a crazy whirlwind journey! Her friend that fathered the baby quite clearly, and rudely, expresses how he wants nothing to do with her or her baby. Her relationship with boyfriend falls apart, while ironically, her relationship with her mother grows.
Sydney goes through the roller coaster of being a single mother working an entry level job while learning how to care for her baby. Meanwhile, some chapters follow young Grace as she finds out that her father is not really her biological father. She then faces the vacancy of not knowing who her daddy is and wondering why he didn't want her. Even though she has a great relationship with her step-father, who has adopted her and claims her as his own, she still wonders about this mysterious man living across the world from her.
It's an amazing book and you really get to see the feelings that the characters are having. The story wraps up quite nicely and it gave me the deepest satisfaction of knowing that the story had a perfect happy ending.
It's definitely a chick novel, and I highly recommend it. Just don't read it in public where people might see you crying! Nor wear mascara while reading.
Let me know what you think about the book, and I'm always open to new recommendations!
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