The Truth

Man.  Okay.  So The Truth about You and Me was a tough book.  Like Amanda Grace's But I Love Him, it deals with a hot and hard topic.  A teacher and a student, in a relationship.  The deal with this book was that it is told from the POV of a sixteen year old girl who is in a fast-track program at a local community college.  Her teacher thinks she is eighteen and while that is bad enough, it wouldn't be illegal.  But Madelyn just keeps the lie going.  She has a lot of issues of her own, with her tough, always-gotta-be-the-best family at home.  With her teacher, she feels she can be herself, even as she is living a lie.
The book was a page-turner for sure and while it was hard to sympathize with Madelyn, she is a very real, well-drawn character.  She is a typical sixteen year old and that comes out in her obvious immaturity.  I didn't buy that the teacher, Bennet, didn't know something was off.  And that was another neat part of the whole story.  He was pretty immature, too.  Great book.