Her family can barely scrape by on a day-to-day basis, so attending an expensive, out-of-state university seemed like a distant dream for her. The main synopsis of the novel is fairly simple: Sadie lives in a small town, and would do anything to attend Berkeley University, where she’s been admitted for the upcoming fall semester. Unfortunately, I have conflicting thoughts about this book, which both failed to engage me and entertained me more than I expected. The cover seemed generic (romantic, I guess), I knew it was a contemporary young adult novel, and I had heard such amazing things about some of Eileen Cook’s other works that I checked it out from my library immediately. The Almost Truth was one of those books I picked up on a whim, so intrigued by the title that I wanted to read it, even though I had absolutely no idea what it was about. With her future at stake and her heart on the line, suddenly it seems like she has a lot more than just money to lose… Sadie wanted to change her life, but she wasn’t prepared to have it flipped upside down by her own deception. But the more lies Sadie spins, the more she starts falling for her own hoax…and perhaps for the wrong boy.

With Brendan’s help, she devises a plan - the ultimate con - to get the money. She needs to come up with a lot of cash - and fast - or she’ll be stuck in this town forever. Sadie wants a better life, and she has been working steadily toward it, one con at a time.īut when Sadie’s mother wipes out Sadie’s savings, her escape plan is suddenly gone. Sadie can’t wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jailbird dad, and the tiny trailer where she was raised…even though leaving those things behind also means leaving Brendan.

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