Every Last Word by: Tamara Ireland Stone

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     This book. Oh this book, let me tell you, it was a rollercoaster, but it was a rollercoaster I will gladly go on again. This book is beautifully crafted and (I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record), but I LOVE this book more than life itself. I want to read this for the first time again and would sell my firstborn child to do so, nothing is as special as reading a life-changingly-good book for the first time. Every Last Word is a book about finding your voice, the power of words, and true friendship. 

 Summary: 

                Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off.

    Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist. 

    Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large, Sam is drawn immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the popular crowd...until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.


"Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built of other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free"- C. JoyBell

    

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