Lock & Key

I saw this book at Target, and immediately put it on the waiting list at the library. I thought it looked and sounded interesting.

I wasn't disappointed. Some Young Adult fiction can really be uninteresting, with all of the watered down stores, but some is just incredible and deserves a genre of their own. This is one of the later.

Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen tells of Ruby. A seventeen year old girl who has been abandoned by her dead beat mother and is trying to live on her own in the rented house she's been left in. She just wants to stick it out until she's eighteen where she can then legally be on her own.

Of course, that doesn't work out. The owners of the house find her living alone and turn her into social services, where she eventually ends up living with her older sister who she hasn't seen in 10 years.

Ruby has lots of emotional issues throughout the book, trust and asking for help being two of the main ones. She does learn a lot of new things about herself along her journey and makes new friendships. In the end she helps someone just as she's been helped.

I really thought the emotions and theme in this story were right on par and I'm going to look for more books by this author to read.