The opening of Every Last Word is different from the actual content | Blind Book Date
This blog series is about the books that I started reading without first checking the synopsis/blurb or any review/blog about it posted online. I wanted to get to know the book and be surprised. As if it was a blind date hehe.
This wasn't long in my TBR. I think I found it posted by one of my Goodreads friend.
The book cover caught my interest, but I had no expectations what the book would be about. I thought about letters, but it was too general to be anything for a plot. So I gave it a go. Read the first few pages and I was interested with how it was delivered. (Take note, I didn't read the summary/blurb or anything about it).
The opening scene introduced Samantha McAllister who was in her bedroom with her friends and they were prepping for a Valentine's event at school. When Samantha picked up the scissors, she started having these dark thoughts (or urges, I think that term is more accurate) that she'd cut roses until she'd cut the love letters next and cut her friend's hair. It gave me this feel that it had something to do with a probable Dexter Morgan urge. If not the need to kill, it was more of something to do or cause harm, or something grim in equivalent.
To my dismay, that wasn't the case lol.
Jumping to the "now" chapter, we were introduced to our main character, Samantha McAllister (who prefers to be called Sam later on) has Pure-Obsessional OCD. She constantly worries over what her friends think of her (Crazy Eights), her medication, her thoughts and urges. The day she met Caroline Madsen who led her to Poet's Corner was turning point of Sam's life.
Sam apparently was a swimmer with a hidden talent for poetry. Upon joining Poet's Corner for the first time, she was (immediately) captivated by AJ Olsen playing his guitar on stage. She met a bunch of new friends there as well, and she was happy when she started noticing these people in school. Like she was a new recruit in X-Men and she realized just now these mutants had been around her before, she just didn't pay attention to them.
Eventually, Sam started hanging out more with the Poet Corner peeps than the Crazy Eights. Started doing more poetry and developing feelings for a certain someone. Not a sign, not a single sign of what the opening chapters had presented me. I was honestly disappointed, but I finished the book nonetheless. It was a dragging read but the plot twist at the end was a nice touch to it.
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