Seventeen-year-old Scarlett is a giver. She habitually gives to others to make them happy; people like Clive Weaver, the former postman who comes out in the nude to check his mail, the Martinelli’s who are about to lose everything in an Internet scam, Fiona Saint George, the goth girl, who draws her fantasies in chalk on the sidewalk, and her best friend Nicole who is needy because of her parents’ divorce. And then her older sister, Juliet, unexpectedly comes home pregnant and with a new husband, Hayden. Now Scarlet’s efforts turn to keeping Hayden, another giver, in her life and to give the new baby something she never had – a father
But along the way Scarlet is forced to accept the fact that sometimes all of the planning and scheming and hoping sometimes ends up disastrously. Sometimes you just have to say “no” and fill your own needs.
At first irritating, Calletti’s method of describing emotions fumbles for the right word until she finally finds it. I had to constantly remind myself that this was set on an island similar to Orcas Island. It could have happened in any tight-knit neighborhood or community on the mainland.
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