Lock and Key Book Review

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Today's post is a review on Sarah Dessen's book Lock and Key

Book: Lock and Key

Author: Sarah Dessen

Pages:422

Publisher: Speak

Genre: YA

Started: March 28th 2017

Finished: April 18th 2017

Goodreads Rating: 4*/5

ABOUT THE BOOK

17 year old Ruby moves in with her sister Cora and her husband Jamie after  her mum (also called ruby) leaves her home alone and disappeared. Ruby starts a new school where she doesn't feel like she fits in. She meets her neighbour Nate.  

REVIEW 

First thing was I was really nervous about reading a Sarah Dessen book. I tried to read Just Listen but I DNF'd it. 

I feel Ruby is such a strong willed character, whose mother didn't really encourage her in anyway so she wasn't really interested in doing things that most teens her age are thinking about such as applying to college. What I will say though Is she has a great work ethic. 

At first I didn't really like Cora that much. She seemed snobby, and if Ruby was in the way. But as time went on I liked her a lot more and actually felt sorry for her. 

Jamie I found so confusing. He set up a Facebook kind of website, he seems so care free and so opposite to Cora, yet is mad when Ruby does drugs and drinks. 

Nate seems so perfect to even be true.  But I like him. Kind of. He is one of those characters that I liked, then disliked, hated and then loved. 

The other high school aged characters seem like normal high school students. 

I actually enjoyed the book more then I thought I would have. I didn't know what to expect from the book at all and was worried about reading it as I didn't like Just Listen all that much. But as the book went on and you could understand the characters a bit more I liked it.  

Even though it is a part of the book it's not until the last half that it's even mentioned about the lock and key necklace. 

It is a very fast moving book but if you keep up you'll get the gist of it. 

What I liked about the romance in this book is that it shows another aspect of relationships not just they have feelings for each other that they don't act on. I liked how they help each other. That they would be better friends then as a couple, and that they didn't have to be in a relationship. 

One of the things that kept coming up was the English question that Ruby had asked herself in her class. Everyone has different views on questions that are asked, life, love etc. Ruby's question was What is Family?  I thought it was a good question because everyone has a family, but everyone's versions of family is different. 

I am someone who likes books that don't have a lot of chapters. Though most books I read are about the same amount of pages (around 400 or so pages) sometimes I feel small chapters can ruin the flow of a book. Where this one I found the chapters to be perfect. 

I could have easily finished the book before I did but this month I've decided not to rush through books.