SO just for a moment without going “spoilerly”… I can’t stand Rogerson. Cass nearly succeeds but by doing so puts herself in grave danger with an abusive boyfriend and drug loving friends. In times of great tragedy or loss in our lives it is tempting to try to reinvent yourself to cover up the pain. As Cass was the one who always took the spotlight, Caitlin had no idea what to do when Cass left and the spotlight was all too glaring on her. I found this book to be an important read just like SPEAK is.Ĭaitlin’s attempt to lose herself after she loses her sister is one that I believe speaks volumes to our society. Narrated by Liz Morton, she brought the perfect “bored and uninterested” voice to Caitlin and her friends as well as she brought the concern into her parents. I thoroughly enjoyed this book in audio format. Caitlin wanders in a dream land of drugs and a nightmare of Rogerson’s sudden fists, lost in her search for herself.Īnd this begins my adventures in reading with Sarah Dessen. But now she is drowning in the vacuum Cass left behind when she turned her back on her family’s expectations by running off with a boyfriend. With him she could be anybody, not just the second-rate shadow of her older sister, Cass. Strange, sleepy Rogerson, with his long brown dreads and brilliant green eyes, had seemed to Caitlin to be an open door. Could it be that Cass left because she felt smothered by this parental over achieving?Īnd as Caitlin deals with this new life she finds herself caught up in a whirl of new friends, friends that did not know here as Cass’s sister… friends she can hide herself in and Caitlin begins to become smaller and smaller, flying under the radar as she experiments with drugs and alcohol under the overly watchful eye of her new boyfriend Rogerson. cheer leading) her mom takes charge with schedules and uniforms and showing up at practices – much as she used to do with Cass. When Caitlin makes the cheer leading squad (ugh…. Caitlin’s mom starts trying to mold Caitlin who had always been the invisible sister into her everything.

leaving… on Caitlin’s sixteenth birthday.Ĭaitlin tries to move forward in her life while her parents watch her every move wondering if she too will take flight. Even now that Cass has left their home, running away to live with her boyfriend…. Caitlin has always seemed to sit in her older sister Cass’s shadow.

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