Book Review Of No Matter What
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- May 23rd, 2009 |
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No Matter What
Jordana Ryan
Amira Press (2007)
ISBN 9781934475041
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/07)
““No Matter What” is a real deep book. The characters have to deal with overcoming any real painful situations and emotions. This is the identify of novel that you will deprivation to read with your friends so that you can talk about it. It leads to a great deal of introspection and really makes you entertain what it would be like to have faced everything that Cassandra has at much a adolescent age. It is real hard to judge individual who has gone finished so much. Enjoy this novel.”
Since age ten, Cassandra has had a difficult life. Leaving a candle burning in her home, her house burnt down and her parents died. Carrying the weight of blame and guilt at not having been the one to have died has affected all of Cassandra’s relationships. During her early teens she began dating Brenden. At XVII, she discovers that she is pregnant. She doesn’t deprivation to ruin Brenden’s future or be a further burden on those who have appropriated her in, so she runs away. Trying to raise her daughter as a single parent is really rough. Cassandra finds herself engaging in risky, promiscuous behavior as an escape, yet she finds that it just makes her life worsened.
Four years after running away, Cassandra returns home to face the consequences of her decisions. She wants her daughter to have a good life and to know her father. Brenden and Cassandra have to attempt to get past the anger that he feels from her leaving him and not letting him know about his daughter. Cassandra has to deal with not feeling worthy of a man like Brenden. Other relationships also need healing.
“No Matter What” is a book about healing old wounds. Cassandra and Brenden both have to deal with capital consequences of actions that they have appropriated as a result of their grief from their past. Brenden’s own mother abandoned him at age five. When Cassandra left him, he did everything he could to avoid being in a committed relationship. He hurt a lot of women with his actions. He also must heal now.
“No Matter What” is a real deep book. The characters have to deal with overcoming any real painful situations and emotions. This is the identify of novel that you will deprivation to read with your friends so that you can talk about it. It leads to a great deal of introspection and really makes you entertain what it would be like to have faced everything that Cassandra has at much a adolescent age. It is real hard to judge individual who has gone finished so much. Enjoy this novel.