AJ and Sam together, however, are just sweet where they have a lot of potential to be sour. If you read my blog, you’ll find I am generally annoyed by the portrayal of teenage love. The romance in this book did not annoy me, which is always impressive. In Poet’s Corner, Sam begins to figure out her place in the world apart from her negative streams of thought. Caroline leads Sam to the Poet’s Corner, where a group of fellow students are also free to be themselves and create beautiful words. When she makes a new friend named Caroline, it’s a welcome relief-Sam loves Caroline because she finds that when they are together, she can be who she really is. She has a group of friends that can turn on her at a moment’s notice, so she has to be careful to wear, say, and do the right things. But Sam has a dirty secret-she has obsessive compulsive disorder and frequently finds herself consumed by negative thoughts that won’t go away. The protagonist, Samantha (Sam) McAllister, is a pretty popular girl in her junior year of high school. Every Last Word, by Tamara Ireland Stone, is an important book in the young adult canon in that it touches on a lot of major issues that often get swept under the rug: anxiety, depression, mental illness, etc.
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